"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"I bet the human brain is a kludge."

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

"People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work."

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."