I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.

To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.