June 2010
58 posts
Radiolab: Oops →
This one’s a keeper.
I have rewritten entire sections of a novel from a female character’s...
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs - p.228
Tolaas began training her sense of smell in the early 1990s, collecting bits and...
– Edible Geography: Talking Nose
Each day we breathe about 23,040 times.
– Edible Geography
Canadian authorities created a city no citizen could recognize and no visitor...
– G20 editorial: Brutal spectacle failed a city and its people - thestar.com
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
– Chuck Palahniuk
I hated chance and uncertainty, but I was drawn to those who showed up on your...
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs - p.182
In all that time, though there have been many other leapers, I have never...
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs - p.177
I have never found anything more reliably sexy in a woman than a passion for 1)...
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs - p.171
I was a child in a time of hope.
– Carl Sagan
What’s important was that baseball, after all these years of artificial...
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs - p.123
I must put my trust in unreliable people, take on responsibilities I could not...
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs - p.113
French cuisine is not a museum. It’s a wave… always it’s a...
– Olivier Roellinger
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, then you don’t understand quantum...
– Richard Feyman
Maybe love was a kind of force that, like light, should be understood as both...
– Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs
And then one day it happened—she cut her hair and I stopped loving her.
– Billy Bragg