There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

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.