The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

How many roads must a man walk down?

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would’ve been arousing if not for all the screaming.”“Ian, ” Bones drew out warningly.He grinned. “You’re right. I was aroused anyway.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Fear is the killer of a great future life.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.

I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.