I'd far rather be happy than right any day.And are you? No. That's where it all falls down, of course.Pity, said Arthur. It sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise.
I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.
In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the s...
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe...
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection.But if no private detective looks like a private detective, how does a private detective know wh...
Now the world has gone to bed,Darkness won't engulf my head,I can see by infrared,How I hate the night.Now I lay me down to sleep,Try to count electric sheep,Sweet dream wishes you can keep,How I hate...
Ok, he said, I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressi...
Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp.
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ ‘But,’ says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t...
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world whic...
The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.
There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent out a massive signal to the world saying that the law was here now taking charge...
Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem Ode to a Small...
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which...
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