Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

You develop a style from writing a lot.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.