i think so?

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson

maybe

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

wonder if this is true?

Gore Vidal talking about Howard Austen, his companion, but not lover, for 53 years. 'It is very easy to sustain a relationship when sex plays no part and impossible when it does.' This satisfies no one of course but there, as Henry James would say, it is.'

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut