Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

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.

He was everyone and every living creature in one ecstatic motion.

Sierra couldn’t afford complications, not in her position, but the way he flirted with her and teased had amped her touch hunger to a deafening roar.

A leader would think that most people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.