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“Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.”
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“Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.”
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“Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.”
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“That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.”
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“No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.”
Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com. 
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“We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.”
Source : Eugene J. McCarthy (1975). “The hard years: a look at contemporary America and American institutions”, Viking Pr
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“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.”
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“We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.”
