And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

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.

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

I find few more satisfying exhibitions of power and control than deliberately creating desire - only to capriciously deny it...

There's maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

I don't eat any red meat.