"On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe."

“Blessed is this life and I'm going to celebrate being alive!”

“They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”

Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.36, Vintage

“You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.”

“All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.”

“Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.158, Open Road Media

“As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.”

“Experimenters are the shock troops of science.”

“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.”