Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be.

Large men with legible biceps

“Billions of years ago, a single, fluke, self-copying cell learned how to turn a barren ball of poison gas and volcanic slag into this peopled garden. And everything you hope, fear, and love became possible.”

the bedrock of human existence. Property and mastery: nothing else counts.

A seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel—root and stem—in great U-turns until it rights itself. But a human child can know it’s pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.

Almost every part of need is created by a reflex, phantasmal, and democratic committee whose job is to turn one season’s necessities into the next’s yard sales.

La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural.

“We’ve been trying to tell you that since 1492.”

The Ape Inside Us