He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.

I think part of the beauty of our relationship with jewelry is that it can change and evolve as we do ourselves.

Always do your best because a pat on the back is real close to a kick in the pants.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.