Peter

“In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.”
― Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

“I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

“to me it sounded more like a pack of thieves making a deal, but then to me no human activity is so reliably boring and shabby as politics.”
― hf saint

“i was becoming a sack of vomit and fecal matter. i suppose, on reflection, that that is what i had always been, but nature had not formerly imposed this aspect of the human condition quite so vividly upon me.”
― hf saint