I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds, if I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
Terry PratchettThey've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Terry PratchettIt was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.
Terry PratchettYoung man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
Terry PratchettI was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
Terry Pratchett