“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
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief — 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
For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then… — 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
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For all my rational Western intellect and education, I was for the moment overwhelmed by a primitive sense of living in a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There are limitless futures stretching out in every direction from this moment—and from this moment and from this. Billions of them, bifurcating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another… — 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
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“during this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music… — 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
“She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“We already have the Wooden Pillar, the Steel Pillar and the Plastic Pillar. In a moment we will have the Golden Bail....'… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. — 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