Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.