Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went m... - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

"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."

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."