Kelly

“It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. But why is it important? After all, fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting. People who go to the forest looking for fairies and unicorns would seem to have less chance of survival than people who go looking for mushrooms and deer. And if you spend hours praying to non-existing guardian spirits, aren’t you wasting precious time, time better spent foraging, fighting, and fornicating?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות

“We are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות

“Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy’?”
― Connie Willis, The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

“None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.”
― Connie Willis, Doomsday Book