Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

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.

Allow yourself to be alive every single day of your life.

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

For a quite good time I thought it's impossible for I to be right with an ideology which a group of people disagree with. Later on I was assured that I was wrong about that idea.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.

The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.

You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.