I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

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.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.