Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

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.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act accompanied by a criminal state of mind.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.