Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

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.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.