“part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.”

“Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense of a rational attitude toward the world. Part of this attitude is viewing things critically, and people with a well developed sense of humor naturally look at things critically, because they are looking for incongruity. ”

“It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.”

“The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on Earth, and perhaps his last chance to prove himself a rational species.”

“Cats, as any rational person knows, are solitary, opportunistic, ambush predators, much like spiders, but with fewer legs and a better fan club.”

“There is a collision course between the greed and rationalizations of the West and the force of nature; science and the planet are the casualties.”