No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

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.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

See. I told you I would get that boy to the alter eventually. All I had to do was pretend I was a loon.

Faye, if you got eaten by another shark, would you please at least have the decency to say so? My time is kind of limited, if you know what I’m sayin’.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.