“Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They’d been brought up to it, and weren’t, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren’t. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and…

My husband has all of them on CD, read by Douglas Adams, and the way he reads some of the lines adds a little something extra special. My favorite from all the books is mainly because of how blase and over it he is when he says, “Ford, you’re turning into a penguin. Stop it.”

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.