Hitchhiker's Guide Quote BotAs they drifted up, their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.
Arthur: So we’re actually going to land in a minute?
Captain: Well, not so much land, in fact...I think as far as I can remember we were programmed to crash on it.
Arthur/Ford: Crash?!
Captain: Yes, it’s all part of the plan, I think. There was a terribly good reason for it which I can’t quite remember at the moment...
Ford: You’re a load of useless bloody loonies!
Captain: Ah, yes, that was it.
This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.
Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an interesting what is it?
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 bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
In a mute embrace, they drifted up till they were swimming among the misty wraiths of moisture that you can see feathering around the wings of an airplane but can never feel because you are sitting warm inside the stuffy airplane and looking through the little scratchy Plexiglas window while somebody else's son tries patiently to pour warm milk into your shirt.
There's nothing there that wasn't there before. I'm just using light to draw your attention to certain drops at certain moments. Now what do you see?
The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.
"How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?"
How can I tell ... that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?