"Så jeg kontakta Viktors far, den berømte oppfinneren doktor Hektor Proktor som akkurat hadde funnet opp en traktor."
"Nei", sa Viktor Proktor. "Min far Hektor fant opp atomreaktor. Du tenker på min bestefar doktor Tor Proktor som var rektor på ingeniørskolen for motor."
En skuffende svak avslutning på en ellers helt grei serie.
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.
The cow spat. "What are you going to do? Not eat me?" "That's right. I won’t eat you and I won’t eat your entire family. Wherever they hide, I’ll find them and not eat a single bite."
The hitchhiker's guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.
There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.
Nobody is ever made happy by winning the lottery, buying a house house, getting a promotion or even finding true love. People are made happy by one thing and one thing only – pleasant sensations in their bodies.
Christians slaughtered christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
One of history's few iron laws is that luxeries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.
How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.
Beware of the seduction of the quick solution. Do not indulge in the answer you desire until you know all you need to know
What we know informs everything we do and every decision we make.
A fool is any man who doesn't think he's a fool
Those who have not lived cannot meditate on the mysteries of life.
We must find you a new boyfriend. Wavey kept telling her, but what if a girlfriend was what Fever needed? She felt as if she had opened the door to a room she had never noticed in a house where she'd lived all her life.
A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.
He had given her too much. He had given her everything.
There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.