96 quotes
We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them.
discussing feral cats in Last Chance to See (1991)
You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985)
The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
It was a battered yellow Citroën 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
In the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a drowned princess, or rather, two hundred reincarnations of a drowned princess.
Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
It is not that we are hidden. We are here. We move among you.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
Especially when I'm wearing the helmet!
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils … without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.
Space is big. Really big. You won't believe how hugely mindbogglingly big it really is.
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Last Chance to See (1990)
He checked to be sure that he did have his huge leather coat and his absurd red hat on and that he was properly and dramatically silhouetted by the light of the doorway.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, you end up with a non-working cat. Do not try this.
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!)
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)