“Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered." — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image