Quotes: Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
When asked if he'd ever go on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Terry Pratchett replied "I'm already a millionaire". Which, coming from anyone else, would have been slightly annoying. Luckily, the bestselling fantasy author is the epitome of lovableness. And very, very witty too.
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The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
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On erotic vs. kinky: It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
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He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.
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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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It's a metaphor of human existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.
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Pratchett's guide to mushrooms: 1. All fungi are edible. 2. Some fungi are not edible more than once.
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Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
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On dolphins: Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something.
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They were the sort of people generally called salt of the earth. In other words they were hard, square and bad for your health.
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His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his phrase: You can't trust any bugger further you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.
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