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Terry Pratchett

28 April 1948-12 March 2015

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Alcohol is not among the best things in life, but it makes up for not having them.

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Building a campfire is a matter of self-sufficiency — as they say, build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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The Cat is all style. If it looked like a frog, we'd quickly realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.

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The Cat is an animal which in ancient times was worshipped as a God... and has not forgotten this.

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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

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Dawn is when it is too early in the morning for it to be too early in the morning.

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Education is a bit like a communicable sexual disease, it makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you have the urge to pass it on.

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Escapism is not good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

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Government is a further development of our keenness to trick one another all the time. We now elect governments to do it for us.

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New York City is home to the new york second, the shortest unit of time in the multiverse, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.