It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.

My favorite color is rainbow.

"Give me liberty or give me death." A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into.