Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

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.

We're all destined for greater things in life. How you execute your plans to achieve that greatness lies solely in your hands.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I believe tattoos are a lifestyle not a fashion trend.

At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn’t own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.