I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.