I Am That Galaxy. Quotes
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.
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?
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...
As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.
And I write novels!" chimed in the other cop. "Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!
When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend.
Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.
This must be Thursday, ' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh should have a good time. Message repeats.
It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water.
Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
My capacity for happiness, " he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist, " says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
What's so unpleasant about being drunk?""Ask a glass of water!
Don't blame you, " said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
The funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.
This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.
We need a country literally full of cat guys and cat girls, bikers, politicians, clergy, and everyone in between, in order to keep millions from dying without homes.
