The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

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.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I’m really too young to be feeling this old.

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)