Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

"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."

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

"Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?"he asked."

"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?"