Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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.

There is light in every soul.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

With each passing minute comes the chance to dream, create and inspire

I am a very emotional person.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

The back-doore robs the house.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.