The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Love is a better way.

I’m afraid you cannot leave, ' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

I hate it when you go somewhere and 9 million people are staring at you.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

I do not sleep to dream but dream to change the world

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

It's not finished until it's documented.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.