When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney

Beware the fury of a patient man.

O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.

Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.