Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.

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

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

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.