When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

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.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.

NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.