Besides the pastor, there were about five people who had access to the safe, ... Those people have been eliminated as suspects through the investigative process.

Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.

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.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.