You know because you’ve been it, and I know because I’m dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective.

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

And so the Universe ended.

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Life is wasted on the living.

The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

If I ever meet myself, ' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment."I've seen it. It's rubbish, " said Zaphod, "nothing but a gnab gib."A what?"Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

And who did she have? The thought caught her up short, but then she smiled, remembering the preacher's words. She had the Lord. He was her foundation, and that was enough.

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty." He chuckled. I wasn't kidding.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.