Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.

Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing life.

Could you free yourself from the chains of the oppressors and learn to live in the beauty of YOU?

Mankind thinks only of living because he is dying, and it is only in dying that he gains his freedom to live

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.