Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

Life is wasted on the living.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.