There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.