What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

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

"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.