Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

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.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Over-the-counter ‪‎drug‬ ‪‎abuse‬ or addiction was a problem that I observed at Mauna Kea

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.