Quotes from Terry Pratchett

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

What can the harvest hope for...

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

He only drinks when he gets depressed, ' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ' said Carrot'What, in Ankh-Morpork?'Yes, sir.''We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.

Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls

It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.

... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.