“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.”

“Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”

“Their wine was probably the best I’d ever had, and I was quickly coming to the conclusion that the creation of alcohol was probably an instinctual trait throughout all intelligent life. A silly concept, I know, but it had to be more than a coincidence that every world I’d ever been to had some form of alcoholic beverage. It was as if the first thing creatures did when they achieved a level of intelligence that no longer required them spending their entire lives scavenging for food or reproducing, was look for ways to get fucked up.”