I’m afraid you cannot leave, ' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.

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.

What is your hands to make a difference in the world?

Inspiration is the most radiant and flourishing expression of our authenticity.

An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs