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.

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

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