“If the unit of human understanding is the story, the story at least in this part of the world includes the cow.”

“People who do this type of work talk about the rupture we feel on our return, an irreconcilable invisible difference between us and others. We talk about how difficult it is to assimilate, to assume routine, to sample familiar pleasures. The rift, of course, is not in the world: it is within us....The world is a hard place -- a beautiful place, but so too an urgent one. ... Once that urgency takes hold, it never completely lets go.”

“Answer me something. This life, where you get to meet people and know them, and become friends, and then in a few days or a few weeks, either they leave or you do...is it worth it? I am not sure. I think so. Maybe having your heart broken like that is what keeps it open.”

“WARNINGIf you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment”

“It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.”

“Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.”

“Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.”