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• Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind- bogglingly big it is.
  I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space....
• What a wonderfully exciting cough! Do you mind if I join you?
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Hey, er..." said Zaphod, "what's your name?" The man looked at them doubtfully.
  "I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one?...
• Well, here's something to occupy you and keep your mind off things.
  -It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind....
• How can I tell...that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• THE RAVENOUS BUGBLATTER BEAST OF TRAAL: A mind-bogglingly stupid animal.
  It assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very very ravenous....
• The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there
  but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....
• If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
  -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...