...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.