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.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.