1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

What's up?" [asked Ford.] I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.