I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival. - Kurt Vonnegut

Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence,
Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance.
His body, empty, prowls the earth,
Earning what a body’s worth.
If his body and his essence remain apart,
Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency."