More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.