The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.

Don’t grow older—grow wiser.

I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

Catch the beauty of the moment!

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back.

[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.