Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBEwas an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971; after the first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 April 1948
CityBeaconsfield, England
What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.
It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.