Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Earth: mostly harmless

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

Reality is hopelessly inaccurate.

People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.