Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.

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

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.