I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

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.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life .

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

I became the messenger who had to be killed

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!