Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.