If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.