"Being unique is highly over rated."

“It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him...”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.33, Vintage

“[M]y father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.”

“...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.”

“Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.”

“I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

“Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.”

“I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that languages have different characteristics and that influences in some ways how different groups behave, and I suppose it might in whales.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Man is a gaming animal.”