A cup of tea would restore my normality.

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.

You can't do in a race what you haven't prepared for.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

My wits begin to turn.