This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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.

If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

What is needed, is an awakening.

Don't tell yourself you don't need love just because it hasn't found you yet.