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

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.