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.

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.

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 may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.