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

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.

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.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

For me, commitment boils down to honor.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he's black. But I think he does have some good views.