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Douglas Adams

b: Cambridge, England., Mar 11, 1952

English. Author. Wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979, made into British TV series shown on PBS.

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Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

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

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Life? Don't talk to me about life…

Space is 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 drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

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.