Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

How many roads must a man walk down?

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

In every laugh, he hears her, in every tear, he sees her. Not a mere reflection, the complete 'her'.

If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.