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.

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.

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

I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

Be determined to live in the light.

A good question is the shortcut to a good answer.

Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.