Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.

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.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.