Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.

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.

We don't need you to make us feel safe, Jake. Because you made us feel brave. And that's even better.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.