Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)

by Douglas Adams

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

This was my favorite line when I was a teenager.

He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you.

This is now my favorite line from LtUaE. I either missed it when I read it as a teenager or (more likely) I didn't know what a Sherpa was or what they they normally cross and so the joke didn't land back then.