Pretentious Ponderer Gifts

'I should know who he is! His work is in every gallery I go into.'

"'Au contraire' to you, too."

In/Out/These Things Happen.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Chiller Theatre

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

"Oh, this old thing?"

A man deflates and dissolves into the ground and becomes a flower.

Admissions test for the Danbury Institute of Philosophy

"Is this who I am?"

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

"I cross the road to forget."

Non Thought For The Day.

'Dad, what is peace?'

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If we evolved from stupid people, why are there stupid people still around?"

"Behold! I am God! I know all. Yet I'm constantly testing you even though I already know what you'll do. But I'll still punish you for the sins I planned for you to do. And you'll suffer in a fiery pit, tormented beyond imagining forever and ever and ever

"Remember that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

"Don’t think of that tennis ball as lost. Think of it as finally free."

'Naughty? Nice? Santa, I don't deal in absolutes.'

"If there is a heaven, why do we end up as fossil fuel?"

The Vatican's undercover mission to Antarctica, and some endangered penguins.

'Now, until you've attained perfect wisdom, you'll have to learn to evade questions.'

"You notice all the books behind me...one of these days I'll get around to read one."

Lost and Profound.

How did life begin? Image shows a strand of dna in the form of a question mark (with a single cell as the dot, floating in water or primeval soup). The image also refers to life beyond the earth, with the cell-like blobs resembling galaxies in outer space

"Their bookshelves look more convincingly read from than ours."

"Never mind 'what does it all mean?' What does anything mean?"

Understanding art.

'It's not so much you having a cockroach problem - it's more along the lines of us having a human problem.'

"I'd let you in, but I'm not sure I'm all here today"

'Hold on, pal! Who's in control of the narrative here?'

Just what is it that amoebas really want.

"We were poor and had the good sense to be miserable."

'Son, life is a mixed blessing, they eat the fancy nuts and toss us the peanuts.'