He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

I come in peace...Take me to your lizard.

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

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.