Sean Stark

“we are caught in what anthropologist Clifford Geertz called “webs of significance.” From the time we are born, we are indoctrinated by our specific culture as to the ways death is “done” and what constitutes “proper” and “respectable.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“there are several airlines that require the pilot and co-pilot to eat different meals. The reasoning is simple. If, for whatever reason, a meal causes food poisoning, one of the pilots will still be well enough to fly the plane.”
― Bill O'Neill, The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts

“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Has herbas, atque hæc Ponto mihi lecta venena Ipse dedit Mœris; nascuntur plurima Ponto. His ego sæpe lupum fieri et se conducere sylvis Mœrim, sæpe animas imis excire sepulchris, Atque satas alio, vidi traducere messes.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book Of Were-Wolves