Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

It was his subconscious which told him this - that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.