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“Mice don’t seek danger, not the way we do. They, like everything else on this planet, are subject to the whims of humans. My whims involved tests that could greatly advance our understanding of the brain, and my desire to understand the brain superseded every other desire I had. I understood that the same thing that made humans great—our recklessness and creativity and curiosity—was also the thing that hampered the lives of everything around us. Because we were the animal daring enough to take boats out to sea, even when we thought the world was flat and that our boats would fall off the edge, we discovered new land, different people, roundness. The cost of this discovery was the destruction of that new land, those different people. Without us oceans wouldn’t be turning to acid, frogs and bats and bees and reefs wouldn’t be heading for extinction. Without me, the limping mouse wouldn’t limp; he would never have succumbed to addiction.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“Every beautiful thing cracks and shatters and collapses and crumples and bleeds. If not now, it will eventually.”
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
“...We humans are reckless with our bodies, reckless with our lives, for no other reason than that we want to know what would happen, what it might feel like to brush up against death, to run right up to the edge of our lives, which is, in some ways, to live fully.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“If you’re going to write about love, write it in pencil.”
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life.” Oliver Sacks”
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
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