The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.