"You can hire a bodyguard, to protect you at the bank for example."

“It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.”

“I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.”

“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

“You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.”

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

“The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.”

“I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.”

“Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.”