If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.