Adams, Douglas

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to nice for a change, …

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.

Mr. Prosser’s accepted role was to tackle Arthur with the occasional new ploy such as the For the Public Good talk, or the March of Progress talk, the They Knocked My House Down Once You Know, Never Looked Back talk and various other cajoleries and threats.