The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)

by Douglas Adams

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was, Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.’

the end never came, at least not then.