Luck is my middle name, " said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.

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.

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.