The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Ow! My brains!
So the hours are pretty good then?? he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,? he said, ’but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the ‘Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence’ syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
He put some more cold pizza into his face.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Assumptions are what we don’t know we are making.
The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don’t even know you are making.
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.