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Etter at de hadde betalt i døren for å slippe inn, var det noen som slukket lyset i taket, og en middelaldrende mann kom inn i rommet mens han bar på et tent stearinlys. Han satte seg i lotusstilling, lukket øynene og begynte å kommunisere med åndene. Han spurte en gammel dame om hun nylig hadde mistet ektemannen.

Nei, ektemannen min er på Ica og kjøper økologiske tomater, sa hun.

— Søstrene by Andreas E. Østby (translator), Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds

— The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)

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.

Many races believe that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief, are small blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

— The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)

"Köttideologin" kring proteinerna hade fått sitt främsta motargument redan 1870-71 då den svältande franska armén besegrats av tyska soldater, effektivt provianterade av en ny "ärtkorv". Utropandet av det tyska kejsardömet 1871 i spegelsalen i Versaille tycktes på samma gång proklamera den politiska potentialen i radikala kvalitetsförändringar av livsmedel genom den moderna, kaloriräknande vetenskapen.

— Varors värde by Rasmus Fleischer, Daniel Berg (Page 122)