See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.