Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that...
She shook her head in puzzlement.'You're very strange,' she said.'No, I'm very ordinary,' said Arthur,'but some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I'm more differed from than diffe...
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off. Thin natural scientists who had spent months locked away in their rooms growing white and fishlike, emer...
The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wear...
Time, said Arthur weakly, is not currently one of my problems.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves...
Wow,' said Zaphod Beeblebrox to the Heart of Gold. There wasn't much else he could say.He said it again because he knew it would annoy the press. 'Wow.'The crowd turned their faces back toward him exp...
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I...
He found the idea of someone who was not only privileged, but was also sorry for himself because he thought the world didn’t really understand the problems of privileged people, deeply obnoxious.
The mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of...
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.
What's up?" [asked Ford.]"I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.
Anything that happens, happens.Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.I...
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.
Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing thing...
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
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