Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

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.

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.