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

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.