's funny... I was *sure* that I remembered reading this marvellous
quote in the Radio Scripts footnotes somewhere (but re-read them last
night and couldn't see reference anywhere... perhaps it's got lost in
the reprint!) *Now* I'm convinced I _heard_ Douglas say it in
interview somewhere, which leads me to believe that it must be on the
TV Series DVD extras since that's the only video / audio I own with
any interview on it. But I'll probably watch the whole damn thing to
find no reference anywhere!
Perhaps it was one of these cleverly-planted ideas (like the location
of the field Douglas lay in, or the rumour as to whom Marvin was based
on) that didn't actually turn out to have a proper source? Maybe, in
fact, somebody like Geoffrey Perkins originally said that Douglas had
said it, but it wasn't really Douglas' quote? Or perhaps Douglas had
said that he had said it, but hadn't originally said it after all? :-)
Thinking back, actually, it's quite possible that there's reference to
the quote (or perhaps even the first existence of the quote itself) in
the forward of one of the Dirk Gently books? There were several great
ideas in those that my bad memory has attributed to HHGG, or
vice-versa.