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

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.