" 'OK,' said Ford [to hotel room service]. 'I want to order up some margaritas please. Couple of pitchers. Couple of chef's salads. And as much foie gras as you've got. And also London Zoo...All the animals that can be safely returned to the wild, return them. Set up some good teams of people to monitor their progress in the wild, see that they're doing OK...Then we'll need some natural reserves for the animals that can't hack it in the wild...We might need to buy somewhere like Zaire and maybe some islands. Madagascar. Baffibn. Sumatra. Those kinds of places. We'll need a wide variety of habitats...And blue cheese dressing on the salad. Thank you' He put the phone down and went through to Arthur...

'I ordered us some foie gras.'

'Oh,' said Arthur vaguely. 'Um, I always feel a bit bad about foie gras. Bit cruel to the geese, isn't it?'

'Fuck 'em,' said Ford, slumping on the bed. 'You can't care about every damn thing.'"

--Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, pp206-7

" '...On its world the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.'

'Odd,' said Arthur, 'I though you said it was a democracy.'

'I did,' said Ford. 'It is.'

'So,' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, 'why don't people get rid of the lizards?'
'It honestly doesn't occur to them,' said Ford. 'They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.'

'You mean they actually vote for the lizards?'

'Oh yes,' said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.'

'But,' said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?'

'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,' said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in.'"

--Douglas Adams, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, p171