When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them.

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

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

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

It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

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