Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

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.

I have a present for you.” He raised his eye brows. “I don’t like your surprises.” “You’ll like this one. Close your eyes.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Hey, you’re not supposed to find our magnificent organs amusing.

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.