I like being a writer.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it.

I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.