"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."

"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

"Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

"There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again."

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."