He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.

The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.

She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those trolleys which simply will not go in the direction you push it and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn't know.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

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