The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.