What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions...
What's the problem Earthman? said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump.I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing here inviting me to, said Arthur, it's heartle...
We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
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.
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, the...
Time, said Arthur weakly, is not currently one of my problems.
There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.
The waiter approached.'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?''Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur.'Huh?' said Trillian.'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. '...
The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. He would have desir...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's definition of Universe:The Universe is a very big thing that contains a great number of planets and a great number of beings. It is Everything. What we live in....
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition...
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
Sometimes if you received an answer, the question might be taken away.
She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn we...
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted...
My capacity for happiness, he added, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.