The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

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.

May your love never become an obsession.

It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!

Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/Good man's blood will drain away/While the wickid win the day.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

Yugoslavia and Serbia will fight against terrorists regardless of whether a political agreement is reached or not.

Patience is the courage of virtue.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.