Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Life is wasted on the living.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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