You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.