I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

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.

The Imagination is one of the important stuff to be creative from there to be a creator!

Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.