If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

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.

Nothing can stop you from achieving your goals if you have a deep driving persistent desire.

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

Negativity is basically laziness.