Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a...
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their...
In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at...
In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
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've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when y...
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.
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever en...
For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microsco...
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.
Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.