The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)

by Douglas Adams

An elevator that’s afraid of heights?” “No,” said the elevator miserably, “of the future …” “The future?” exclaimed Zaphod. “What does the wretched thing want, a pension plan?”

“He’s spending a year dead for tax reasons. I’ve got to sit down.” He sat down.

Marvin, “and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”