Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.