"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..."
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
"Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
"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."
"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."
"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?"