If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

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.

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.

Endeavor to do what you love so that your work becomes an expression of love to the world

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

We don't need to start our dream from the top all we need is to make a first step where we are standing right now and say my journey starts now

Feed the truth. Starve the lie.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.