It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

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.

Honesty is a great thing, if tempered with love.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.