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"It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now."
"there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no."
"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal."
"To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead."
"The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts."
"I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting."
"There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin"
"It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out."
"Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then to ignore the violence and create a gentler world in our fiction, or to heighten the violence through the use of point-of-view in order to explore it and gain some insight and understanding. Since I'm living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it's kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it."
"You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by."
"Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace."
"At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill."
"Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness."
"On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity."
"So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge."
"Dance improves your ability to concentrate because your brain has to work in so many ways. You're being stretched physically and mentally. You've got to focus on the steps and you have to communicate and interact with people."
"Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain."
"No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain."
"We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future."
"When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities."
