My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

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.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

My mind: a thousand hungry daughters, my harlot heritage.Marbles: lost, no rescue search.Your heart: blooming thorns, and a stolen grocery cart.

I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

Force cannot give right.