Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

by Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

“You what?” said Ford. “No. Me Harl. You Prefect. You do restaurant column. Me editor. Me sit here tell you you do restaurant column. You get?”

Old Thrashbarg said that it was the ineffable will of Bob, and when they asked him what “ineffable” meant, he said look it up. This was a problem because Old Thrashbarg had the only dictionary and he wouldn’t let them borrow it. They asked him why not and he said that it was not for them to know the will of Almighty Bob, and when they asked him why not again, he said because he said so.

Old Thrashbarg, book five MVP.