If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

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.

She always walked under the arches of nightsAnd everywhere she wentShe leftThe mark of broken things.

It's fine, but don't ask me to strip again or I'm going to wonder what your intentions really are.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

I'm going to be real as hell and show you who I am, because I want the kids to see who I really am and the basketball players to see who I really am, and that's all that matters to me.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

Writing is an antisocial act.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.