In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

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.

Catch the good point and appreciate it.

She is a winsome wee thing She is a handsome wee thing She is a bonny wee thing This sweet wee wife o' mine.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

One of the things I've done personally is bring my girlfriends into my health and fitness journeys.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.