Quotes from Terry Pratchett

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel