If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.

Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.

A pear is a failed apple.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.