I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

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.

Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren't out to get them.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.