As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

How many roads must a man walk down?

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.

It seemed so much safer and more comfortable to live in the lives of other people - to observe their joys and sorrows with detachment as if one were watching a film or a play.

When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.

Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.