It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Humans need fantasy to be human. Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged:Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?My point exactly.

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.

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

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.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

The best research you can do is to talk to people.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.