“It is not fatigue simply as such that produces the anger, but unexpected demands on a man already tired.”
“Magnesium deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle weakness, fatigue, eye twitches, insomnia, anorexia, apathy, apprehension, poor memory, confusion, anger, nervousness, and rapid pulse.”
“Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.”
“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.”
“There's no point in getting angry. Anger makes you ask questiona. Anger sets up expectations and demands to know the truth. ”
“This tired abstract anger; inarticulate passive opposition; always the same thing in dublin”