"Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause."

“There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his ‘truths’, as the sun does its light. - Isn’t it rather a pity that the void has no ears?”

Source : Pierre Klossowski (2005). “EPZ Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle”, p.2, A&C Black

“For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.”

“I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.”

Source : "Music of The O.C.: Interview With Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. March 22, 2005.

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”

“The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.”

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”

“I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.”

“So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.”