Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.

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 cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

To the extent you expand your consciousness is the extent to which you experience being divine.

If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

I don't have any bad habits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

When I look at the faces of turning drivers, I mostly see them looking in the direction of oncoming motorists rather than at the people they're about to turn into.