It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conduction frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.