Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

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.

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.

The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.