Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.