All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ’ said Carrot‘What, in Ankh-Morpork?’‘Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

You're saying, ' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.

A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.

Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford

I'm going to build my own slam.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."