Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.โ โSir?โ โIt seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.โ โSir?โ โThatโs practically zen.
Terry PratchettWhat was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
Terry PratchettWinston 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.
Terry PratchettI have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
Terry PratchettDwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!
Terry Pratchett