Peter David

Ford Prefect: You know, it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

Arthur Dent: Why, what did she tell you?

Ford Prefect: I don’t know, I didn’t listen. — Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)