part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.