There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.
The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.
That’s right … we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty
So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual m...
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in or or At first Ford had fo...
Mr Cjelli, nice to see you back, sir. Sorry you had a spot of bother, hope that's all behind you now.Indeed, Bill, it is. You find me thriving. And Mrs Roberts? How is she? Foot still troubling her?No...
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression as pretty as an airport. Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only...
I'm a writer and I'm feeling like death, as you would too if you'd just flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan at some ungodly hour of the morning only to discover that you can't get into your hotel room f...
I don’t know what I’m looking for.What not?Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.
He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.
Ghastly, continued Marvin, it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door, he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicke...
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whet...
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Religion... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever... If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like;...
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.
Who is this god person anyway?
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?Six by nine. Forty two.That's it. That's all there is.I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.