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

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.

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.

...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.

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.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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