So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

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.

Learn how to pray with all your heart, applying all your energy to concentrate on one specific goal

In life, we are all playing the game of thrones one way or the other

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear.