Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

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.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

Use the prise de fer!" Shelby called. "Lilith sucks at the prise de fer. Correction: Lilith sucks at everything, but especially the prise de fer.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.