You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

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.

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

Wayne Curtis is one of our very best writers!

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night.

People always break the law, but for the most part the rule of law triumphed and illegal immigrants were found and deported. The case was not made for them to stay.

All the resources we need are in the mind.