Douglas Adams is a Genius!

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

“The President in particular is very much a figurehead– he wields no real power whatseover. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he’s reuqired to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is alawys a controversial choice, always an infuriating but facinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.”

” ‘Charming man,’ he said. ‘I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one…’
‘You wouldn’t need to,’ said Ford. ‘They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident. No, don’t move,’ he added as Arthur began to uncurl himsef, ‘you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.’
‘What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?’
‘You ask a glass of water.'”

“Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem ‘Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning’ four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.”

-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy