"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
"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's up?"[asked Ford.]I don't know,"said Marvin, "I've never been there."
"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."