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Look," said Zaphod, "I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.

Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one.

Arthur paused, warily. "You going to ask

But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable." "Er, yeah.

it must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.

there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.

Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes

He gestured Arthur toward a chair which looked as if it had been made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus. "It was made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus," explained the old man

the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book

Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

Zaphod was so surprised that they had to shoot him again before he fell down.

I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my girlfriend!

monkey. I went along for the ride because I'd got some very safe money on him not doing it, and didn't want him coming back with fake evidence.

The word yellow wandered through his mind in search of something to connect with. Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.

He would insult the universe. That is, he would insult everyone in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and in alphabetical order.

the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

stared fixedly into the sky like a rabbit trying to get run over by a car.

They're as stupid as any other organic life form. I hate them.

Nevertheless, like every parking lot in the Galaxy throughout the entire history of parking lots, this parking lot smelled predominantly of impatience

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.