Noetic Institute Quotes

#1. She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture.

George Saunders

#2. Forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Michael Pollan

#3. Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

John Twelve Hawks

#4. I couldn't stop so I quit.

Brian Spellman

#5. For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Taylor Swift

#6. She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.

Helen Hodgman

#7. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous." ~Elaine to Maddie

Katie Kacvinsky

#8. Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming.

Bret Easton Ellis

#9. After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

Jurgen Habermas