I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

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 are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.