Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.

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.

You are known by the thoughts you seed.

A piece of art is part of its creator, you cannot split them apart. You cannot like one and dislike another.

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.

I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

People mistakenly believe that if you do nothing but train you can only get better. You've got to work hard, but the harder you work the harder you must rest and relax.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

Words physically have power to bring things into existence.