#undergradadventures

I totally agree! Sir Terry had such a wonderful way of looking at humans as if observing them from the outside. Here’s just a taste of such quotes:

So much universe, and so little time.

Pets are always a help in times of stress. And in times of starvation, too, of course.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods. They have not forgotten this.

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.