Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

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.

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.