Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

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.

We determine the destiny of our nation

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.