Book: Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Page 1

It was clear that protection will not last long. On the strength of four minutes, according to Ford Prefect.
Three minutes and fifty seconds, he said after a while, snapped a couple of useless switches and ominously looked at Arthur. - Seagull wanted?.. Three minutes and forty seconds.
Yes you will cease to believe in really?! - whined Zaphod.
- Cease - promised Ford. - Three minutes thirty-five seconds.

I prefer to be happy than to do it right.

However, he added on further reflection, I understand myself. I can not be trusted. Me with me need to be careful, like a fish with fire.

Is it not enough that the garden is lovely - you also need to believe that it dancing fairies?

- What a dreadful large party?
The hangover.

- He's so kind, ' he said. - A pity I have no daughter. I'd told her not to marry him.

- Maybe I'm too old and tired, he continued, - but I always thought that the chances of finding out what is really going on, so ridiculously low that you just need to spit on it all and try to occupy myself with something interesting. For example, I: I design the coast. I have an award for Norway.
He rummaged in the dustbin and pulled out a clear plastic brick, inside of which was a model of Norway, and the outside is inscribed his name.
And what's the point? he asked. - I don't see any. All my life I have done the fjords. At some point they became fashionable and I got a big reward.

He was especially annoyed that he was constantly asking what he is so angry.

- We have for you.
- Sure, I don't like it.
- You like it. You get a new life.
- One more life? Oh no, not this.

Vogon harboured no illusions about the feelings caused by their opus. In the distant past, to the literature they were pushed by the desire to prove their civility, now - only sadism.

Somewhere I read about one planet in the seventh dimension, which was used as a billiard ball in some intergalactic bar. Now, the ball is driven into the hole, and the hole served as a black hole. Killed ten billion sentient beings.
- That's crazy! - horrified Mella.
But this blow brought the thirty points, - said Ford.

England was no more. He took one way or another, but she took it. He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. Take it he failed. He decided to start again with something smaller. New York was gone, he thought. And remained calm. He never seriously believed that new York exists.
The dollar has finally fallen and will never rise. Arthur flinch. Destroyed all the cowboy movies. A heart ache. Sausage, he thought. No more hot sausages.
Arthur lost consciousness.

And soon the end of the world? - inquired Arthur.
- About 20 minutes - said Ford. - Come and have a drink.

Tall, dark, and he was forever at odds with itself. Worried him most is that people were constantly pestering him with questions why it had this look.