Terry Pratchett

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.

Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn__ trust it. Often you couldn__ even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else__oincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.

You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last.Granny shrugged. __omething like that. Probably. Who knows?

Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!_"We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)

I don__ think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...

The wizards were civilized men of considerable education and culture. When faced with being inadvertently marooned on a desert island they understood immediately that the first thing to do was place the blame

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice."Whoopee", said Crowley.

Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind of noise and the drunk suddenly bent forward, colour draining from his face. Probably only he and Moist heard Miss Dearheart purr: __hat is sticking in your foot is a Mitzy __retty Lucretia_ four-inch heel, the most dangerous footwear in the world. Considered as pounds per square inch, it__ like being trodden on by a very pointy elephant. Now, I know what you__e thinking: you__e thinking, __ould she press it all the way through to the floor?_ And, you know, I__ not sure about that myself. The sole of your boot might give me a bit of trouble, but nothing else will. But that__ not the worrying part. The worrying part is that I was forced practically at knifepoint to take ballet lessons as a child, which means I can kick like a mule; you are sitting in front of me; and I have another shoe . Good, I can see you have worked that out. I__ going to withdraw the heel now.__here was a small __op_ from under the table. With great care the man stood up, turned and, without a backward glance, lurched unsteadily away.__an I bother you?_ said Moist. Miss Dearheart nodded, and he sat down, with his legs crossed. __e was only a drunk,_ he ventured.__es, men say that sort of thing,_ said Miss Dearheart.

You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bunch of lads.

For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?

This was not the time to say __ don__ know._ The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed. They wanted an answer. It would be nice if it was the right answer, but if it couldn__ be, then any answer would do, because then we would stop being worried...and then his mind caught alight.That__ what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there__ food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated, and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so that we don__ have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don__ fit the way we want the world to be.