Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

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.

To become better you, look nowhere else for greatness. All you need to improve and succeed are right there in you.

The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off.

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?" - Eric, club dead.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

Thought is invisible nature.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.