3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.

What's money interested in? More money.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.