“Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame.”

“This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.”

“...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”

“Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be. ”

“Nothing in this world feels quite like freedom, except for freedom. And nothing in the world tastes quite like freedom, except for fried bald eagles.”

“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”