I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Get some facts and come back and see me!

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Revelation replaced investigation.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.

Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.