“The fourth is there just to keep them in order because three of anything is bound to get messy.”

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”

“The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.”

“Here are the top three things I’ve learned in my twenty-two years on the planet:1. Never wipe your butt with poison ivy.2. People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.3. There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.Of all of them, number three is really the only one you have to keep in mind”

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”