People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

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.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.