“Show some fucking adaptability!”

“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.”

“You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.”

“Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.”

“You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.”

“The novel is a fucking killer. I try to show it every respect.”