Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
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.
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water.
Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies.
Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away there’s a person with more Twitter followers than you.
The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.
I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.
'Crucible' was going to be a 'passing of the torch' story. So something that was big enough to be worthy of that, that could show these characters being changed - along with their respective outlooks about life, the galaxy, and the Force - was Mortis...
I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.
