Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully. - Douglas Adams

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.