"I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better."

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.

They’re scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile.

We used to be best friends but the first time I saw you, my heart beats fast like my happiness can never be surpassed. I don’t know why but if I lost you promise I will always cry.

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

When I'm not happy, I can't play. That's just the way I am.

I want you to feel like you're going to die.

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.