I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.
As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.