Once you sand the corners off consequences, people start to get really fucking weird.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
— Lynn Margulis
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips
Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable. — Michel Faber
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. — Edmund Burke
