I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

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.

We talk, even if no one listens, because we never know when someone will.

Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.