friendship

"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."

"My introduction to Stephen Jay Gould's work came in the 1970s, when I avidly read all his articles in Natural History . In 1990, when I was asked by a London newspaper to name my favorite book, I sele…"

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

"In complete shock. I really want to use words right now but I can’t get em. Fuck. We’re supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we’re ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long li…"

"The curious thing about the Žižek phenomenon is that the louder he applauds violence and terror—especially the terror of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, whose "lost causes" Žižek takes up in another new book,…"

"On , we were extremely meticulous in our scripting of every scene, every joke, every line. When people came on that show, they were told by script supervisors "You don't change one comma", because tha…"

"A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it."

"You'll have to excuse my friend, Ryan. That's the first time he's ever touched a woman."

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compa…"

"You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies—literally beyond counting—and this is only one universe."

"In its flexibility and in its wide-open opportunities, this is the total Utopia. Anything that you can conceive of, you can do in this non-world. Nothing can stop you except a total bankruptcy of crea…"

"I don't think I could stab somebody, 'cause I'm really bad at a Capri Sun."

"Most explicit information on the eigenfunctions of a Laplace operator on a compact manifold comes from computations where a high degree of symmetry is present. In these cases, eigenspaces may be of la…"

"Twiddling is one of my autistic things. I do it to calm me down. I twiddle frantically for a while, and I fantasize about all kinds of things while I twiddle."

"My dear friend, the world is really one vast marketplace. No one cares where a man is from as long as he has gold in his pocket, or something you want. And the remarkable thing is this: the wars have …"

"We are on the edge of a new era. It can be something completely positive for Lebanon, and it can be something completely dark for Lebanon. … That's why we are really at a turning point where anything …"

"You've got to gather yourself, you've got to give the speech, go see the Governor-General, do all of that. And then you get to have a few drinks with friends, so that's not that hard."

"Pain, Wonder, and Really Old Things: An Interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan"

"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."

"All his leisure clothes were absurd — jokes, really — as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed."