The most overrated things are fame, the future, marriage, being rich, happiness, being in love, sanity, being alive, sex, and human beings.

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

What is unfair is, not life, but our demanding—as microscopic a part of life and as unnecessary to life as we are—that life happen as per our desires, which are always selfish … and almost always petty.

Believing in God makes one humble … and arrogant: those who do give their actions and their abilities way less credit than they really deserve, and are inevitably left with the unshakable belief that they are way more important to life than they actually are.

It is only other people’s ridiculous beliefs or customs that seem ridiculous to us.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.

The only really useful thing about zoos is that most of them pay most of their workers most of the time.

The will to live is as intense in a weed as it is in a human.