"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Although nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one."
— Victor Scheffer, Biologist

"I came by the horror naturally. Surgery is the one branch of medicine that is the most violent. After all, it’s violent to take up a knife and cut open a person’s body and rummage around with your hands. I think I was attracted to the horrific."
— Richard Selzer