The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1-5)

by Douglas Adams

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Anatomical analysis of the Vogon reveals that its brain was originally a badly deformed, misplaced and dyspeptic liver.

“I don’t know. I’ve never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear.

His brain lurked like a frightened puppy in its kennel. Ford took him by the arm.

Very few things actually get manufactured these days, because in an infinitely large Universe such as, for instance, the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere.

It was a Cathedral of Hate. It was the product of a mind that was not merely twisted, but actually sprained.

“Oh, for heaven’s sake,” said Prak, and died testily.

The garage attendant didn’t think much of their car, but that was fine because they didn’t either.