Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

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.

She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.

Just because I understand does not mean I agree.

I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.