It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.

I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.

To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.