Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

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.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

You want something enough that you’re going to hurt, then you stay, and keep it.

Sorry I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41