Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.

- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.

-Terry Pratchett

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

- Terry Pratchett