It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

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 devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it’s somebody’s job and not yours.

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us

The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND!

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.