“OK, I should have said ‘I know a deep-sea short cut.’”
“Unless he thinks we’re krill I think we’ll be OK.”
“I don’t have an irrational fear of the great cetaceans. I have a rational fear of the great cetaceans.”
“Well, for one thing, we’re both mammals. That should count for something!
“I know they can’t open car doors. But I don’t think he needs to.”
“Yes, I probably should have asked for directions five miles back. Satisfied?”
“The good news is that the ball is in his court. The bad news is, we’re the ball.”
“All right, all right, all right. He probably can’t read the bumper sticker. I was grasping at straws, and I apologize.”
“No, this does not refute my devotion to the environment. I believe it was Goethe who said that, while we must love Nature, we cannot expect Nature to love us. I knew that going in.”
“OK, they do look very different when you see them in the rear mirror.”
