I think the idea of art kills creativity.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.