Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

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.

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.

Am I as admirable as that ant?

Your obstinacy towards your goals gives you ignition which leads to your success.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.