Ben

“People who talk to themselves on the phone,” said Ford, “never learn anything to their advantage.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject’s taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject’s metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject’s brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“With the Diaries he had no need for either a cult or a guru in the flesh. The book provided this American with entrée to the equivalent of a radical cultic experience.”
― Robert Jay Lifton, Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism