A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

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.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.