“It's extremely easy to be mean to people you don't really know.”

“Maybe it's better not to know some things. Mysteries make us tick more than just about anything else.”

“For every thing that we are, there are a million things that we're not. And usually, those million things are what we really want but can never have.”

“If they think it's the truth, then they believe it, and if they believe it long enough, then it becomes the truth.”

“The true test of a society isn't how many lies it has; it's how many it believes.”

“The journey had been long and dangerous, and along the way he had met countless travelers, many of whom were so amazing that they must certainly rank among the most original and memorable characters in the history of recorded literature. Which is why it's so sad that there's no time to describe them.”

“Ah, but surely you must now be saying, "waitaminute, tuna fish would go bad if you kept it in your pocket for weeks and weeks without refrigerating it."To that I simply say: You obviously haven't read Professor P.S. Schackman's informative book How to Keep Tuna Fish in Your Pocket for Weeks and Weeks Without it Going Bad. I suggest you read it before complaining about the tuna situation again.”