Payton White’s Reviews > Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life > Status Update

“…to be clear-eyed and Good was to concede with every breath, with every step, our insignificance. To say otherwise was to sin, to lie, to march off toward delusion, madness, or worse.”

He 100% did whatever people say he did

He says that the problem with spending one's time pondering the futility of it all is that you divert that precious electricity gifted to you by evolution-those sacred ions that could make you feel so many wonderful sensations and solve so many scientific puzzles-and you flush it all down the drain of existential inquiry, causing you to literally "die while the body is still alive."

“A special proof of scientific as distinguished from aesthetic interest is to care for the hidden and insignificant.”