“When We Come To It We, This People, On This Wayward, Floating Body Created On This Earth, Of This

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Illustration: Julia Pott

“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html

Illustration by John Holcroft

I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money. It's about 2% movie-making and 98% hustling.

— Orson Welles

Image: Warrior of the Worlds, a graphic novel series that finds the filmmaker leading a double life as he battles alien invaders, Scout Comics.

"Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained. And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.” - Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis

Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez.

Less than 3% of reporters and editors in the U.S. — and even fewer elsewhere in the world — have formal training in covering science, health, or climate. — Siri Carpenter, The Open Notebook

Image from https://stemcell.eco/

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." — Joseph Pulitzer

Artwork by Steve Powers

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess

Photo by Juan Carlos Paz 

“A fact is an epiphany of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo by Nicole Ottawa.

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright

“Let them eat cake.” - Marie Antoinette