My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

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.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.