There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

'The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.'

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.