Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.