Quotes from Terry Pratchett

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn't trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.