She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing

I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.