And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

I buy way too many books.

Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?