"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by"

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

" 'I may,' he added with a grin which would have sent sane men scampering into the trees, `have been imagining it.' "