There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

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.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know, " Haymitch says.

Morality is contraband in war.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.