Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

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.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Knowing one day, I will be gone, makes me live fuller life.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.