Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

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.

Some say only the most trustworthy & loving go through trials we don't understand. I say that it's only them who didn't let it change who they were.

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

Every day there are many opportunities to be nice---or not so nice.