We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

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.

The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with.

There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan, with Saudi Arabia.

A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.