The Human Condition

This is taken from John Armstrong's In Search of Civilisation:

"A human being is the only creature which can reflect upon its own existence, conceive of its own death, and fake orgasm"

So much for writing, or speech and language, or the use of our opposable as what separates us from being mere animals.

More on Books and Love

This quote is from a character in the classic novel Zorba the Greek: "I had fallen so low that if I had had to choose between falling in love with a woman and reading a book about love, I should have chosen the book".

This had a painful sting of truth to it.