Continents Quote by Jonathan Franzen

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of…

— Henry Miller

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too…

— Stephen King

The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

— H. W. Brands

“What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for…

— Neal Stephenson

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

— Jon Krakauer

“He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy—something Americans do particularly well.”

— Robert L. O'Connell

“it always bothered him when he came back to the States and saw the everyday people walking around without a thought for the men…

— Jeremy Lock

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

“He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take…

— John Verdon

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed,…

— Sherwood Smith

Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the…

— Robert M. Pirsig