Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Context: Ford muses on Zaphod's dramatic approach to the legendary planet Magrathea.
Source: Chapter 16
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had…
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.