The dog is called Sandy. I like Sandy. He is not clever but he is very cheerful.

这只狗叫桑迪。我喜欢桑迪。它不聪明，但非常快乐。

I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

我不喜欢正经的小说。在正经小说里，人们会说这样的话：“我的血管里流淌着铁、银和普通的泥土。我无法像那些不依赖刺激的人那样握紧拳头。”这是什么意思？我不知道。父亲也不知道。写这些书的人也不知道。

People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.

人们相信上帝，因为世界非常复杂，他们认为像飞鼠、人眼或大脑这样复杂的东西不太可能是偶然发生的。

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating.

我喜欢狗。你总是知道狗在想什么。它有四种情绪：开心、难过、生气和专注。

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

I find people confusing.

我发现人很令人困惑。

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them.

有时我们会为某些事情感到悲伤，而我们不愿意告诉别人我们为此感到悲伤。

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

我认为质数就像生活。它们非常合乎逻辑，但你永远无法弄清楚其中的规则，即使你花所有时间去思考它们。

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

"I see everything. That is my problem."

我看到一切。这就是我的问题。

"I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards."