The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

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.

Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

Where life ends, peace begins!

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close.

Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.