The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.” – pg. 28
“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.” – pg. 35
“The main reason he had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.” – pg. 62
“I don’t know what I’m looking for. […] I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.” – pg. 97
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I don’t know what this great thing I’m meant to be doing is, and it looks to me as if I was supposed not to know.” – pg. 164
“Every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question, ‘How can we eat?’, the second by the question, ‘Why do we eat?’ and the third by the question, ‘Where shall we have lunch?'” – pg. 245-246
“In an infinite Universe anything can happen. Even survival. Strange but true.” – pg. 275
“How can you have money if none of you actually produces anything?” – pg. 299
“No, I’m very ordinary. But some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I’m more differed from differing.” – pg. 309
Life, the Universe, and Everything
“Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in.” – pg. 315
“There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.” – pg. 321
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“One effect that lingered, though, was his joy at being back.” – pg. 518
“Life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it.” – pg. 541
“Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.” – pg. 551
“You can’t sustain a story, you know, when the only news is the continuing absence of whatever it is the story’s about.” – pg. 576
“A scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.” – pg. 587
Mostly Harmless
“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else in life becomes eerily easy.” – pg. 641
“Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.” – pg. 669
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.” – pg. 699
“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.” – pg. 720
“Part of solving any problem […] was realizing that you had it.” – pg. 791
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