...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

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.

You Change, the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.