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If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

Universe, Absurdity, Humor, Philosophy, Cynicism

If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional

If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional

If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional

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“The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.”

Inspiration, Creativity, Alcohol, Origin Story, Travel

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

Certainty, Doubt, Humor, Demands, Paradox

“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity – distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.”

Astronomy, Infinity, Perspective, Philosophy, Insignificance

“I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.”

Music, Learning, Admiration, Comparison, Creativity

“Plenty of people didn't care for him much, but there is a huge difference between disliking somebody – maybe even disliking them a lot – and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day.”

Human Nature, Violence, Social Commentary, Humor, Perspective

“What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?”

Humor, Religion, Travel, Absurdity, Modern Life

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

Normality, Responsibility, Humor, Perspective, Coping

“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.”

Humor, New York, Common Sense, Character, Statistics

“Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.”

Intelligence, Children, Perception, Humor, Education

“The light was only just visible – except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.”

Perception, Existence, Philosophy, Light, Observation

“The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.”

Creativity, Writing, Humor, Inspiration, Frustration

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

Challenge, Ambition, Wordplay, Humor, Philosophy

“Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.”

Paradox, Time, Space, Memory, Perception

“For as long as he could remember, he'd suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”

Self-awareness, Existence, Memory, Identity, Uncertainty

“Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”

Adventure, Preparedness, Humor, Science Fiction, Character

“A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey – a non-preying mantis if you like.”

Wordplay, Humor, Nature, Contradiction, Language

“Svlad Cjelli. Popularly known as Dirk, though, again, "popular" was hardly right. Notorious, certainly; sought after, endlessly speculated about, those too were true. But popular? Only in the sense that a serious accident on the motorway might be popular – everyone slows down to have a good look, but no one will get too close to the flames. Infamous was more like it. Svlad Cjelli, infamously known as Dirk.”

Character Description, Popularity, Infamy, Metaphor, Reputation

“I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”

Technology, Efficiency, Humor, Programming, Irony

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”

Humor, Responsibility, Morality, Medical Absurdity, Self-justification

“When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.”

Creativity, Memory, Writing Process, Inspiration, Authorship