My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.