Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

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.

Don’t count your dollars to see how rich you are. Count your memories. Count your friends. Count the hugs you get every day. Count what really matters.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

Unhappy is a nice word.

I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be.

I never say I am a guru.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.