1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.