The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true.

when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said “Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists” instead of “Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists")

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

“but when I find him, he’d better have a very good reason for me wanting to see him.”

a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea

We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing. Eventually we tried to combine the two, but that only led to disaster, as you can probably imagine.

it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I just materialized out of thin air in one of your cafes," he said, "as a result of an argument with the ghost of my great grandfather. No sooner had I got there that my former self, the one that operated on my brain, popped into my head and said `Go see Zarniwoop'. I have never heard of the cat. That is all I know.

but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.