Terry Pratchett

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

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

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.