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“A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason.
This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.”

“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.”

“He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.”

“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”

“Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave.”

“For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”

“He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.”

“It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?”

“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”

“You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual, I suppose.”

“Conceited little mega-puppy.”

“Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.”

“When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.”

“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”

“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”

“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.”

“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”