Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.