“It’s never too late to start being early.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading.”
Source: Jennifer Government
“Every time you think about settling on a more mundane question to answer, or reducing your sample size, or skipping an experiment that would strengthen your interpretation, remember that reviewers and editors of the major journals are looking for the small minority of papers that stand out from the rest.”
“This is merely one of the sides of the conspiracy.
The other side is that of the spectator who, for want of understanding anything whatever most of the time, consumes his own culture at one remove. He literally consumes the fact that he understands nothing and that there is no necessity in all this except the imperative of culture, of being a part of the integrated circuit of culture. But culture is itself merely an epiphenomenon of global circulation.
The idea of art has become rarefied and minimal, leading ultimately to conceptual art, where it ends in the non-exhibition of non-works in non-galleries - the apotheosis of art as non-event. As a corollary, the consumer circulates in all this in order to experience his non- enjoyment of the works.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“Raccoons are beyond fear, and they are assholes.”
Source: Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“This," Cole said, the broomstick braced on the ground beside him, looking like Moses in sweatpants, "is the reason raccoons don't take over the planet.”
“Their clownish countenance notwithstanding, raccoons are the most destructive of all fowl thieves in many regions of North America.”
Source: Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks: Breeds, Care, Health
“The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.”
Source: Gardening in the Dark
“She grabbed her jacket, although the weatherman had promised a return to seasonable temperatures. But given his record, she saw no reason to trust him. What other occupation got to retain their jobs when they were right only half the time?”
Source: Deadly Dreams
“Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.”
Source: Julie of the Wolves