And so the Universe ended.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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 available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.