A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless