It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

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 can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Ehe, 24 hours have gone from my father dead. It was yesterday, he suicided yesteday in the morning. Even and more than 24 hours!

The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

Eternity bids thee to forget.

I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.