When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend.

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.

Your level of consciousness defines the beauty of your life and destiny.

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.