“Evolution has one big rule: If there's no pressure on the system to change, then it doesn't bother.”
“There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!”
“There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.”
“As one individual changes, the system changes.”
“There's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want.”
“I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do.""A rule?""If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.”