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.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.