I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

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.

But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.

Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.