Terry Pratchett

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.”

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

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

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

“So much universe, and so little time.”

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's.”

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.”

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

“So much universe, and so little time.”

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as if you always come in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot.”

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”