There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.Douglas Adams
It's not a comfortable thought, but the one solid piece of comfort you can derive from it is the certain knowledge that, somehow or other, life will always find a way of carrying on.Douglas Adams
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.Douglas Adams
I've always found that the most difficult thing in the world is to persuade a bird that you mean it no harm when it is very well aware that you could harm it if you chose to. There is no basis for such a negotiation.Douglas Adams
It occurred to me then that 'extinct' is a lot more than just a word. It is a silent scream.Douglas Adams
The instant at which extinction occurs is generally the moment at which the last surviving member of the species, perhaps a very old female, finally succumbs.Douglas Adams
We are now the only species that can determine whether or not those unique evolutionary lines that have been separately evolving for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years survive or vanish forever.Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Douglas Adams
It's easier said than done because the one thing that's abundantly clear about them is that we, meaning early twenty-first century humans, haven't a clue about what to do with them or about them.Douglas Adams
It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.Douglas Adams