No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

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’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people—

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

New York in the 60s was amazing.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.