Patsy Lester

“The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?” “It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,” came a low growl from somewhere on the table, “without undergoing a prefrontal lobotomy.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Carl Sagan put it best: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Chris Impey, Beyond: Our Future in Space

“I’ve encountered my fair share of war reenactors over the years, but I’ve never seen a reenactment of this banal predicament: a tired woman in a dark house answering a child who is supposed to be asleep that she has no idea when Daddy’s coming home.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

“The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave,” he wrote. “It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States