The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat.

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.

A man’s weakness is his family and a woman’s is her child

Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race.

Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

The most important thing is work.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death