Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

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.

Happiness is divine-state of satisfaction.

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.