How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

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

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.