As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

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.

These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy, in silence and isolation.

No. One. Comes. Before You.

Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord.

I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.