I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

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.

Simplicity is the friend of execution

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave, ' his father told him.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.

If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.