It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.