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.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.