Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

I'm sick of carrying guns and beating up women.

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.