1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

the rest of you... keep banging the rocks together

You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays.

Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Sometimes if you receive an answer, the question might be taken away.

Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they’re asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard’s Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs of recognising him at all. This was hardly surprising since Richard had spent his three years here assiduously avoiding him, often to the extent of growing a beard and pretending to be someone else.

Arthur had almost given up. That is to say, he was not going to give up. He was absolutely not going to give up. Not now. Not ever. But if he had been the sort of person who was going to give up, this was probably the time he would have done it.