The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!

I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.