Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.

Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

Science is magic that works.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.