The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

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.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

Nothing makes sense, why should I?

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.