It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

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.

Never let anyone steal your passion and calmness without your permission.

Today is a day to be thankful.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

life is not about distance, it’s about direction

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Necessity does not submit to debate.

My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.