Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

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.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

Though punishment be slow, still it comes.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

An innocent bureaucratic snafu.