The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

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.

You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.

Who we are and where we want to go determines what we do now and what we accomplish over time.

Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.