She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

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.

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.