Mark Saxton

“I thought,” he said, “that if the world was going to end we were meant to lie down or put a paper bag over our head or something.”

“If you like, yes,” said Ford.

“That’s what they told us in the army,” said the man, and his eyes began the long trek back down to his whisky.

“Will that help?” asked the barman.

“No,” said Ford and gave him a friendly smile.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Parts of the inside of her head screamed at other parts of the inside of her head.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“You want to check your legal position, you do, mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we’re straight out of a job, aren’t we? I mean, what’s the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives you his bleeding phone number the next morning?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Now—either you all give yourselves up now and let us beat you up a bit, though not very much of course because we are firmly opposed to needless violence, or we blow up this entire planet and possibly one or two others we noticed on our way out here!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy