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

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

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