“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”

“I’d like to. Problem is, I’m not stupid.”“You act stupid.”“Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there’s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid.”“It’s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.”

“I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.”

“Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.”

“And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.”

“Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.”