Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

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.

Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear this, then this is exactly what will happen.

He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day.

the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.