Terry Pratchett Quotations | Page 4

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

There is always time for another last minute

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.

One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?'

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.