Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

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 possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Knowledge is constructed, not transferred