Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.