💬 Quotes

"For Travers, fairy tales were not meant for comfort; they were meant to be mirrors of truth, sometimes sharp-edged and often mysterious."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It has been built on the fragmented remains of inevitably destroyed worlds, at the last instant of the last day of the Universe."

"The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them."

"Zaphod Beeblebrox: 'I’m a very important person. I’m the President of the Imperial Galactic Government. Don’t you know who I am?' Zarniwoop: 'I know exactly who you are, Zaphod. You’re a terrified little man who’s afraid to be alone with his own thoughts.'"

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

"It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."

"He really had been through death, but he had come back because he could not bear the solitude."

"Time was not passing... but that it was turning in a circle."

"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can."

"They were condemned to one hundred years of solitude because they did not have the capacity to love."

"Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave."

"The hardest financial skill is getting the goalposts to stop moving."

"Compounding is hard because it is not intuitive; our minds are not wired to grasp exponential growth."

"Planning is important, but the most important part of every plan is to plan on the plan not going according to plan."

"Wealth is what you don't see. It’s the money not spent on the cars, the diamonds, and the watches."

"The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, 'I can do whatever I want today.'"

"The truth is rarely as interesting as the fiction we create about ourselves."