A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

How many roads must a man walk down?

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.