I don't like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don't believe in God, or at least not in the one we've invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they've invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."