If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)