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.
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 vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.
I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a...
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called t...
Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a success...
A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for...
A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.
Don't panic and carry a towel
When John Lloyd was putting together the Not 1982 calendar, and was stuck for things to put on the bottoms of the pages (and also the tops and quite a few middles). He turned out the drawer, chose a d...
During this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television. Before they came along all entert...
You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give y...
You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?'
Would you like to see the menu? he said, or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?...Good evening, it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you 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...
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.