Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

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.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands

Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

When you're a little different than others, it takes a little more time to fit in. If you really want to be there, there are no ingredients you need other than effort, perseverance and teamwork.

Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.