One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.