To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.

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.

History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are unlikely to improve the lives of peasant farmers

The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?

Pigs should not make friends with butchers. One must choose one's friends wisely.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

I want my world to be fun.

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.