He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.