There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

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.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

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.