Mark

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else while you're uncool.”
― Lester Bangs

“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”
― John McPhee, Annals of the Former World

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.”
― Charles Ives