(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Well, they start OUT as Maids of Honor...but they end up Tarts.

— Terry Pratchett

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

— Terry Pratchett

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

— Terry Pratchett

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

— Terry Pratchett

A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Renewing's battered heart.

— Terry Pratchett

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

— Terry Pratchett

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

— Terry Pratchett

Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.

— Terry Pratchett

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

— Terry Pratchett

A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows.

— Terry Pratchett