He was staring at the instruments with the air of one who is trying to convert Fahrenheit to centigrade in his head while his house is burning down. Where there's life there's hope. You may think I've gone insane... but I promise. I will kill again. Uncertainty is inherently unsustainable. Eventually, everything either is or isn't. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. That is why you fail. Evolution? they said to themselves, Who needs it? Magrathea itself disappeared and its memory soon passed into the obscurity of legend. In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of it. The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?

Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future - the past. Old friends long gone.

• A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
• You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
• Chuck Norris has root access to your system.