Transatlantic Aleks Syntek Quotes & Sayings

I invented a book that listed every word in every language. It wouldn't be a very useful book, but you could hold it and know that everything you could possibly say was in your hands. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Besides, when it came to being colorful...we invisible kids learned to carry our colors on the inside — Paul Dini

But for the moment it was just a pattern of sensory impressions painted on the screen of her memory, not soaked in yet, not understood, not even granted the dignity of having really happened. — Neal Stephenson

For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't. — David Simon

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas. — Bodhidharma

It is very difficult to logically explain the illogical. — Haruki Murakami

Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail. — Albert J. Nock

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer? — Alexander The Great

Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched. — Neal Stephenson