3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett 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.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett 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.
3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
