Quotes

“I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.” Douglas Adams

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.” Douglas Adams

“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.” Douglas Adams

“In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.” Douglas Adams

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” Douglas Adams

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” Douglas Adams

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

“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.” Douglas Adams

“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” Douglas Adams

“Life is wasted on the living.” Douglas Adams

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams

“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.” Douglas Adams

“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.” Douglas Adams

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.” Douglas Adams

“ The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.” Douglas Adams

“The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.” Douglas Adams

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” Douglas Adams

“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” Douglas Adams

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Douglas Adams

“Time is bunk.” Douglas Adams

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” Douglas Adams

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.” Douglas Adams

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” Douglas Adams

“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.” Lois McMaster Bujold