... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

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.

Do you believe in Jesus?Jesse looks at me so brown-eyed it hurts.He nods."I do, " he says.I sit up."I think you look like him.

When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.