I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

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.

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.