There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth; and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.