What's up?"[asked Ford.]I don't know,"said Marvin, "I've nev... - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"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."

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

"Ow! My brains!"

"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."

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