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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The Nome Trilogy (1989)
Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.
Hogfather (1996)
I don't think I've found God, but I may have seen where gods come from.
I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
The Carpet People (1971)
Dodger lived in a world where nobody asked questions apart from: “How much?” and “What’s in it for me?”
Dodger (2012)
Mmm, don’t I just know that onto the world that is people paint the world that they would like.
Dodger (2012)
That is good for a man because responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.
Dodger (2012)
That is the salvation and the demon of journalism, the knowledge that there is almost always a different perspective from which to see the conundrum.
Dodger (2012)
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998)
While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
War is a terrible thing, and many people return with wounds invisible to the eye.
Dodger (2012)
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Nerds are the only people who know how to operate the video recorder.
Desert Island Discs (1997)
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Moving Pictures (1990)
Life doesn't happen in chapters — at least, not regular ones.
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998)
The problem with Destiny, of course, is that she is often not careful where she puts her finger.
Men at Arms (1993)
In the moment of silence Agnes fancied she could hear the stalactites grow.
Carpe Jugulum (1998)