The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

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.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

What is the world’s problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.