Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

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.

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Blessings be on this house, " Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Happiness is speechless.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.