And then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

— Douglas Adams

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.

— Douglas Adams

An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like the pitch that it does on the mainland. Species are only as tough as they need to be, life is much quieter and more settled [.] So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance.

— Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

— Douglas Adams

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

— Douglas Adams

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was." Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

— Douglas Adams

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

— Douglas Adams

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Logon Constructor Fleet. That I wasn't previously aware of.

— Douglas Adams

Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up.“I thought you must be dead …” he said simply.”So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.

— Douglas Adams

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

— Douglas Adams