The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.