If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

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.

The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.