Better do nothing than do ill.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

My definition of success is control.

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

I do know this: other countries are eating our lunch.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.