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private investigator. Which he actually was. So the turtle-eyed sergeant ignored him.

Stoat asked, 'Are you a manhunter?' 'More like a shit-scraper,' the visitor replied. 'And I'm starting with you.

As he was pulled underwater for the final time, terror gave way to abject humiliation: he was being fucked to death by a damn fish.

Merry whistled. "This parallel universe of yours, Andrew, I love it.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.

Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body's warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage.

Demon" means "knowledge" in Greek. "Science" means "knowledge" in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.

Do you believe in UFOs?' I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not of evidence. I'm almost never asked, 'How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?

President Dwight Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence);

If anything like this is true, then we would be denied even our self-congratulatory distinction of being the only animal that makes self-congratulatory distinctions.

But you reassure yourself that at least here they are safe from baleen whales and oil slicks and cocktail sauce.

If ever there was an avian candidate for psychotherapy, the male blue heron is our nominee.

It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence.

It is therefore impossible that reason not previously instructed should imagine anything other than that the Earth is a kind of vast house with the vault of the sky placed on top of it;

Los demonios venden; los bromistas son aburridos y de mal gusto.

Briefly illuminated on the wall beside her desk was a quotation from the Parables of Franz Kafka: Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence . . . Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

democracy can also be subverted more thoroughly through the products of science than any pre-industrial demagogue ever dreamed.

Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood will one day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?

I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft.