The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. |
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. |
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79 |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair |
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. |
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. |
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. |
The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola |
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. |
The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck |
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. |
There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. |
There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened. |
This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. |
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. |