We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything

The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra Mussels. Water Hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings. The local natives, anything unique gets squeezed out. The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct

That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways