"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."

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

"It鈥檚 not the fall that kills you; it鈥檚 the sudden stop at the end."

"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

"She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting."

"Today must be a Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."

"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind."

"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."

"I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them."