Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ’ said Carrot‘What, in Ankh-Morpork?’‘Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

You're saying, ' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.

Do not resist the flow of your life because it's your destiny.

Being optimistic isn’t about believingnothing can go wrong. An optimistacknowledges what can go wrongbut expects things to go right.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.

I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly!

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.