These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.

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.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Vitarag’s [the enlightened one’s] 'water' (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) 'stains'.

Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.

I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

I am my own investigation territory.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.