penguins

Don__ believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.

The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.

Zed : Penguins, such fascinating creatures, but I didn__ know you were studying them. What class is that you__e taking?Sky: The __e-stupid-looking-creature-should-stick-together_ class.

The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks...It's like they're supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don't have any, they have nothing to do with all their energy. So they just pick fights.

Know your load. That__ rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I__ not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I__ pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.

I've never been in love, but if a penguin can find a soul mate, I'm sure I can, too.

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort of sweat and salt and endeavour. Like all the fat orange Penguins, it gets fatter with reading, which it should, because in a way the more you read it the bigger your own experience of the world gets, the fatter your soul.