You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

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.

Sometimes you have to go upReally high to understand HOW small You Really Are

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.