Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
Fear is the brother of hate.
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.