The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to...
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of th...
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....
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.
My capacity for happiness, he added, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that...
I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?
Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of looking into...
So this is it, said Arthur, We are going to die.Yes, said Ford, except... no! Wait a minute! He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. What's this switch? he c...
Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
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...
I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free. Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, see...