He held up his watch to sunlight, letting it drink in the wherewithal that was to solar watches what money was to Earth men. - Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.