Quotes from Douglas Adams

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark

I freewheel a lot. I get an idea to do something, and, hey, why not, I do it. I reckon I'll become President of the Galaxy, and it just happens, it's easy. I decide to steal this ship. I decide to look for Magrathea, and it all just happens. Yeah, I work out how it can best be done, right, but it always works out. It's like having a Galacticredit card which keeps on working though you never send off the cheques.

Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire one evening, humming it to Linda and wondering what to buy with the proceeds, and thinking probably Essex.

Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life." He

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

I come in peace...Take me to your lizard.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

Who is this god person anyway?

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed.

"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.