You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

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.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.