“virus. In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath.” ― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone “The Lord… Read More ›
“a whole lot of ideas isn’t a plan. A plan is a bunch of details that mesh with one another, so you go from this step to this step like crossing a stream on a lot of little boulders sticking… Read More ›
“It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is your living legacy, that it… Read More ›
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” ― Frank Herbert “In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing… Read More ›
“The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.” ― Bruce Springsteen “People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want.” ―… Read More ›
“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.” ― Philip Roth “Our children begin by loving us; as they grow up they judge us; sometimes they forgive us.” ― Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are You Now?… Read More ›
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.” ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles “Jesus Christ… Read More ›
“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science… Read More ›
“Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgment. I think it is called mercy.” ― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture “Is there a wrong way to say “I don’t know”? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be… Read More ›
“Go Home. Cut your losses. Stay. Go for it. You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy. All these voices waving their arms and screaming at one another.” ― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City “We are all of us born… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 