Quotes from Terry Pratchett

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

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

THERE IS NO JUSTICE" said Death "JUST ME

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

If you dont turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.