And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

You are better than you think.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.