Dan Riskin Quotes

#1. We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

Anais Nin

#2. Having fins in the water was useful to travel quickly, but the bulky appendage left much to be desired for exerting dominance. Something about being unable to sit, legs open, left me feeling feminine."
~Fin

Brenda Pandos

#3. Fire curled in the old woman's hand, bright and hungry as though it could already taste its next victim.

Shona Moyce

#4. Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

#5. Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to look. Sense was only to be found in secrets.

John Berger

#6. A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!

Tad Williams

#7. The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

Sophocles

#8. Our instincts weren't built to handle the kind of power our species wields over the planet, nature has been playing rough with us for so long, maybe it is no surprise we are being so rough with her now.

Dan Riskin

#9. ...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.

Dan Riskin

#10. The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

Laird Barron