Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without ha... - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"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."

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

"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."

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."