I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

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.

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.