Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.

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.

Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself.

If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!

The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.