I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

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

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

Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

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.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.