It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."