3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn’t received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers.

There is always time for another last minute.

Everyone’s heard of Erwin Schrodinger’s famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it’s gone.

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn’t really happened and, if it had happened, hadn’t happened much.