You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.” “Er, five,” said the mattress. “Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.