If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

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.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Feeling undeserving is never compatible with the ability to attract or create wealth.

God loves our attention, sometimes adversity is away to draw us closer to Him.

Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'