Scott Akerman

“The Greenland ice sheet preserves the record of elevated levels of lead released into the atmosphere by Roman-era silver smelting. From”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“Laws prohibiting the throwing of feces, animal carcasses, and human corpses into the street would not have been necessary if there were not a problem,”
― Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“He’s making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don’t know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union