“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.”
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“A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.”
“That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.”
“You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.”
“We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.”
“Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.”