...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.

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.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

I'm lazy, I like to do it right the first time.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.