What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.
The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.
There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
