It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

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 number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

words same as always same as nothing when nothing is the same

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.