Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

I never had a doubt in my mind. I always knew that, with the right material, I could pop a hit.

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.