In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn’t lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style.
Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won’t engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin.
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.
If there’s any real truth, it’s that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.
How do you know you’re having fun if there’s no one watching you have it?
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.
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.
Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
Will you stop counting!? snarled Zaphod. ‘Yes,’ said Ford Prefect, ’in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
It was his subconscious which told him this – that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that’s something you might have to consider.
It’s part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.