It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.