Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

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.

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.