Joey Crate

“Factual knowledge is not always sufficient by itself to motivate an adaptive behavior. At times a symbolic belief system that departs from factual reality fares better.”
― Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?' Asked once, when emptiness was the worst. Why ever [would] he want to remember that?”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Into the Forest