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."

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

Chiller Theatre

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

Admissions test for the Danbury Institute of Philosophy

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

"I cross the road to forget."

"Is this who I am?"

Non Thought For The Day.

"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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'Dad, what is peace?'

"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."

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

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

'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.

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."

Understanding art.

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

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

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

"I think, therefore I am depressed."

Just what is it that amoebas really want.

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

"Do you think there's life out there?"