In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

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.

One thing you cannot avoid ever in life, and that is time.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.

The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.