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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.Douglas Adams
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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.Douglas Adams
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.Douglas Adams
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Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.Douglas Adams
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But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.Douglas Adams
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There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.Douglas Adams
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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.Douglas Adams
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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.Douglas Adams
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People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.Douglas Adams
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It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.Douglas Adams
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Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.Douglas Adams
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He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.Douglas Adams
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The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.Douglas Adams