And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.

You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' 'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' 'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes