We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soo… - Douglas Adams

The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like.

It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.