Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

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.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

Always make the other person feel important.

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.

If you want it and believe you can have it, you will.