“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.”

“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”

“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”

“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”

“Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.”

“This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.”