Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.

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

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

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