The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'