I'd far rather be happy than right any day. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"So this is it,"said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes,"said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!"He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?"he cried."What? Where?"cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling,"said Ford, "we are going to die after all."

"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."

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."

"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?"