They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

The hated have no reason to love.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

Success lasts a lifetime but stops at the end of your life. Significance lasts many lifetimes and continues long after you’re gone.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

I got you plenty of hats at home, Vickie, what are you doing?

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.