Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.