1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dream he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new lifeforms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

„Calitatea oricărui sfat pe care îl are oricine de oferit trebuie să fie evaluată raportat la calitatea vieții pe care acela chiar o duce.