“There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.”

“I incline to the quantum mechanical view in this matter. My theory is that your cat is not lost, but that his waveform has temporarily collapsed and must be restored. Schrödinger. Planck. And so on." -- Dirk Gently”

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

“The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.”

“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”

“If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?”