One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

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.

Many people desire to be trusted but they don’t do things that make them trustworthy...

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that is a change that is happening in the consumer culture.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.