The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

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.

So it's true what they say about warlocks,

Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry, ' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

He sees those tears in your eyes. He knows the desire of your heart. And you will hear from Him-just in time to take the next step.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.