Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.