Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

It's your road, and yours alone.others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.