Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

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.

Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on.

You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.