You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue.

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

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.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.