The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks d... - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

"My capacity for happiness,"he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first"

"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?"

"Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

"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..."