“Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.”

“..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”

“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”

“You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.”

“The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.”

“No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.”

“...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”