...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

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

ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.