"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."

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 poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful.

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken, ' I said.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

No time is wasted time

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.