No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow

I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever.