“Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.”
“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
“The human species is an animal species without very much variation within it, and it is idle and futile to imagine that a voyage to Tibet, say, will discover an entirely different harmony with nature or eternity.”
“I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.”
“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.”
“It takes hundreds of people to turn their backs on an endangered species and just two to make a difference.”