Top Highlights

• People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
• human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium,
• If it’s true that there are billions of universes stacked alongside one another, the thickness of a thought apart, then there must be people elsewhere. But wherever they are, no matter how mightily they try, no matter how magnificent the effort, they surely can’t manage to be as godawfully stupid as us. I mean, we work at it. We were given a spark ...
• Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
• the gods gave people a sense of humour to make up for giving them sex.