Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81. It was so easy to interface stuff to it.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.