You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

I am a creature of chemicals.