What's up?" [asked Ford.]"I don't know, " said Marvin, "I've never been there.

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.

Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer’s dream.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.