Best quotes from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy for tattooing

"Don't Panic."

"No one should ever have left the oceans."

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

"There’s no point in acting surprised about it."

"I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all."

"On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you."

"Mostly harmless."

"I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."

"Why, what did she tell you?"

"I don't know, I didn't listen."

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."

"There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."

"We have normality, I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem."

"Brain the size of a planet."

"Life! Don't talk to me about life."

"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?"

"Oh no, not again."

"Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?"

"I wonder if it will be friends with me?

Hello Ground!"

"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."

"So long and thanks for all the fish."

"Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless."

"Forty-two, the Answer to the Great Question, of Life, the Universe and Everything"

"42"

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

"So once you know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

"The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied."

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."

"And are you?"

"No, that's where it all falls down, of course."

"What's up?"

"I don't know, I've never been there."

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The original books by Douglas Adams:

 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

The Salmon of Doubt (originally a Dirk Gently book but adapted to the Hitchhiker series)

At the time of his death Douglas Adams was working on The Salmon of Doubt but he was unhappy with how it was progressing as a Dirk Gently book. Douglas Adams said of it, "A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working". He was still working on resolving the problems he faced with The Salmon of Doubt, namely "salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt." Later, various drafts of the first ten chapters were assembled together along with a memo suggesting further plot points. These now appear in the published but not completed book The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time.

Extracts from The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams

Aasleagh (n.): A liqueur made only for drinking at the end of a revoltingly long bottle party when all the drinkable drink has been drunk.

Aboyne (vb.): To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Abruzzo (n.): The worn patch of ground under a swing.

Acklins (pl. n.): The odd twinges you get in parts of your body when you scratch other parts.

Ahenny (adj.): The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

Aigburth (n.): Any piece of readily identifiable anatomy found amongst cooked meat.

Aith (n.): The single bristle that sticks out sideways on a cheap paintbrush.

Albacete (n.): A single surprisingly long hair growing in the middle of nowhere.

Alcoy (adj.): Wanting to be bullied into having another drink.

Amlwch (n.): A British Rail sandwich which has been kept soft by being regularly washed and resealed in clingfilm.

Ampus (n.): A lurid bruise which you can't remember getting.

Anantnag (vb.): (Eskimo term) To bang your thumbs between the oars when rowing.

Badachonacher (n.): An on-off relationship which never gets resolved.

Balemartine (n.): The look which says, 'Stop talking to that woman at once.'

Bathel (vb.): To pretend to have read the book under discussion when in fact you've only seen the TV series.

Baughurst (n.): That kind of large fierce ugly woman who owns a small fierce ugly dog.

Bauple (n.): An indeterminate pustule which could be either a spot or a bite.

Beaulieu Hill (n.): The optimum vantage point from which to view people undressing in the bedroom across the street.

Belding (n.): The technical name for a stallion after its first ball has been cut off. Any notice which reads 'Beware of the Belding' should be taken very, very seriously.

Belper (n.): A knob of someone else's chewing gum which you unexpectedly find your hand resting on under the passenger seat of your car or on somebody's thigh under their skirt.

Bickerstaffe (n.): The person in an office that everyone whinges about in the pub. Many large corporations deliberately employ bickerstaffes in each department.

Bishop's Caundle (n.): An opening gambit before a game of chess where the missing pieces are replaced by small ornaments from the mantelpiece.

Bodmin (n.): That irrational and inevitable discrepancy between the amount pooled and the amount needed when a large group of people try to pay a bill together after a meal.

Boinka (n.): The noise through the wall which tells you that the people next door enjoy a better sex life than you do.

Boolteens (pl. n.): The small scattering of foreign coins and halfpennies which inhabit dressing tables. Since they are never used and never thrown away boolteens account for a significant drain on the world's money supply.

Boscastle (n.): The huge pyramid of tin cans placed just inside the entrance to a supermarket.

Brindle (vb.): To remember suddenly where it is you're meant to be going after you've already been driving for ten minutes.

Canudos (n.): The desire of married couples to see their single friends pair off.

Clenchwarton (n.): (Archaic) One who assists an exorcist by squeezing whichever part of the possessed the exorcist deems useful.

Climpy (adj.): Allowing yourself to be persuaded to do something and pretending to be reluctant.

Cloates Point (n.): The precise instant at which scrambled eggs are ready.

Clun (n.): A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you.

Clunes (pl. n.): People who just won't go.

Cong (n.): Strange-shaped metal utensil found at the back of the saucepan cupboard. Many authorities believe that congs provide conclusive proof of the exstence of a now extinct form of yellow vegetable which the Victorians used to boil mercilessly.

Coodardy (adj.): Astounded at what you've just managed to get away with.

Cotterstock (n.): A piece of wood used to stir paint and thereafter stored uselessly in the shed in perpetuity.

Craboon (vb.): To shout boisterously from a cliff.

Cromarty (n.): The brittle sludge which clings to the top of ketchup bottles and plastic tomatoes in nasty cafés.

For more, you'll just have to buy the book.

Douglas Adams and his books

The birthday of the brilliant Douglas Adams falls on the 11th of March in the other hemisphere, so I write this today. Those who know him better have many a kind word to say about the man. I didn't know him at all. I was just an avid reader of his works through my younger years.

So instead of saying many a kind word I will say this: He never wrote a dud so read them all. 

Hitch-Hikers Guide to the GalaxyThe Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, 1979.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 1980.
Life, the Universe and Everything, 1982.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 1984.
Mostly Harmless, 1992.
And Another Thing..., 2009. Finished with the help of Eoin Colfer.

Hitch-Hiker Scripts
Hitchhikers Companion Original Galaxy Radio Scripts, 1985.
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts, 1987.

Hitch-Hikers Guide - Radio Scripts, 1985.
The Hitchhiker Radio Scripts 2, 2005.

Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, 1987.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988.
The Salmon of Doubt: And Other Writings, 1995.

Novels

Starship Titanic, 1997. Collaboration with Terry Jones.

Non fiction

The Meaning of Liff, 1983. Collaboration with John Lloyd.
Last Chance to See, 1990. Collaboration with Mark Carwardine.

The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things That There Aren't Any Words for Yet, 1990. Collaboration with John Lloyd.

Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1999.
Douglas Adams at the BBC, 2003.

Anthologies edited

The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, 1986. Collaboration with Peter Fincham.

Series contributed to

Doctor Who, Pirate Planet Script, 1994.

Doctor Who, Eighth Doctor, Shada, 2003.

Short stories

The Total Perspective Vortex, 1980.

Young Zaphod Plays It Safe, 1986.