Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

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.

Making a wish is fun to do.Dreaming it out is much fun too.Work, and your wish just might come true.

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.