The Best Slartibartfast Quotes

Slartibartfast: Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.
Arthur: And are you?
Slartibartfast: Ah, no.
[laughs, snorts]
Slartibartfast: Well, that's where it all falls down, of course.

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that.

Slartibartfast: You must come with me.
Arthur: Who are you?
Slartibartfast: What? No. My name's not important. You must come with me, or you'll be late.
Arthur: Late for what?
Slartibartfast: Well, um, what's your name, Earthman?
Arthur: Dent. Arthur Dent.
Slartibartfast: Well, late as in *the late* Dentarthurdent. It's a sort of threat. You see?
Arthur: No.
Slartibartfast: Your friends are safe, you can trust me.
Arthur: Trust a man who won't even tell me his name?
Slartibartfast: Well, um, my name is, um, it's
[hurriedly]
Slartibartfast: Slartibartfast.
Arthur: What?
Slartibartfast: I *said* it wasn't important.

Slartibartfast: [talking about the Earth] Best laid plans of mice.
Arthur: And men.
Slartibartfast: What?
Arthur: Best laid plans of mice and men.
Slartibartfast: Oh. No, I don't think men had much to do with it.

Slartibartfast: Ever heard of a place, I think it's called Norway? That was one of mine, I got an an award for it.