Quotes from Douglas Adams

Life is wasted on the living.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.