Rincewind just might be the character of all time. (Part 1, probably)
“You’re all missin’ the point. He survives. You keep on tellin’ me he’s had all these adventures and he’s still alive.”
“What do you mean? He’s got scars all over him!”
“My point exactly, Dean. Most of ’em on his back, too. He leaves trouble behind. Someone Up There smiles on him.”
Rincewind winced. He had always been aware that Someone Up There was doing something on him. He’d never considered it was smiling.
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
Rincewind shook his head. “It’s no good,” he said. “I hate it when people are nice to me. It means something bad is going to happen. Do you mind shouting?”
Ridcully had had enough. “Get out of that bed you horrible little man and follow me this minute or it will go very hard for you!”
“Ah, that’s better. I feel right at home now. Now we’re cooking with charcoal,” said Rincewind, glumly.
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep, and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
He was no good at anything else. Wizardry was the only refuge. Well, actually he was no good at wizardry either, but at least he was definitively no good at it. He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
And he probably had saved the world a few times, but it had generally happened accidentally, while he was trying to do something else. So you almost certainly didn’t actually get any karmic points for that. It probably only counted if you started out by thinking in a loud way “By criminy, it’s jolly well time to save the world, and no two ways about it!” instead of “Oh, shit, this time I’m really going to die.”
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
“Say something in wizard language!”
“Er. Stercus, stercus, stercus, moriturus sum,” said Rincewind, his eye on the knife.
“‘O excrement, I am about to die?’”
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
“I saw him, I tell you! A legion of soldiers collapsed with the wind of his passage!”
The wind of his passage was beginning to worry Rincewind as well. It always tended to when he was frightened.
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
“That is correct,” said Two Fire Herb. “We will overcome because history is on our side.”
“We will overcome because the Great Wizard is on our side,” said Butterfly sharply.
“I’ll tell you this!” shouted Rincewind. “I’d rather trust me than history! Oh, shit, did I just say that?”
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
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