You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.