I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.