I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

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.

Once upon a time, he might’ve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.

Dream big, you are powerful.You can exceed all your expectations

You've ruined me, baby. I'm yours...you've got me under your spell.

Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.