They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

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.

The path is undefined. You have to define and walk in your own path.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.