Being offended by things is the world’s big hobby at the moment. It’s almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.
I didn’t notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
I don’t say that I don’t believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.
Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Why’ is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go ‘A B C D What? When? How?’ but it does go ‘V W X Why? Z.
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it’s throat.
The light was only just visible – except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
The little waiter’s eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.
Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.
In an infinite Universe anything can happen.
Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
I really didn’t foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course – the computer industry didn’t even foresee that the century was going to end.
Mc Donalds he thought. There’s no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.