The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.

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.

I'll leave you two alone. Morality might be contagious.

Life can be a waste by jesting and joking away their time.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

What's her name?" "None of your business." "That can't possibly be her name.

I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.