David

“We have yet to understand: that if I'm starving, you are in danger.”
― James Baldwin

“His geekiness was that bizarre failure to care about the one thing that everybody agreed really mattered: kudos, while his coolness came from the same source, because not caring about kudos—not obsessing about it, not chasing it down wherever it might be found, not constantly measuring one’s own coolness against that of one’s peers—was in itself kind of cool.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist