Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

How many roads must a man walk down?

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Those who hurt, Screw up, if you are lucky Demons will let you watch.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.

It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.