Quotes from Douglas Preston

drug is going to end warfare as we know it." "That's what Alfred Nobel said when he invented dynamite.

There was a silence

Il tempo è un galantuomo

Leishmaniasis has a long and terrible history with human beings, stretching back as far as human records exist and causing suffering and death for thousands of years.

He had always found it easier to go up against an intelligent adversary. Stupid people were unpredictable.

You see, between me and life there is a mist of words always.

What Strong realized right away was that these were not Maya cities: The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture.

He knew from his Chongg Ran training that the thoughts you most try to banish are the ones that most persistently push themselves back in.

I'm never better than when I'm alone.

As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.

she spent many hours whirling around trying to catch the monarch butterflies that floated among the milkweed and chokecherries. When she caught them, she cupped them in her hands and smelled them, as if they were flowers. When she released them, some would drop to earth traumatized or crushed, while others flew off in a spiraling panic while she watched, her hands and nose dusted with the orange powder from their wings.

The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture. Even as Strong's work showed definitively that Mosquitia was not part of the Maya realm, however, his discoveries raised more questions than they answered.

Are you familiar with Project MK-Ultra?

Do you know, I've always believed there's no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that's all.

The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The

Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.

Love, sex, family, the pleasures of food, intellectual delight, friendship, appreciation of beauty, the pleasure of exercise and good health, the excitement of sport and adventure -- all these qualities were given to us, not by God, but by evolution.

Dietrologia is the idea that the obvious thing cannot be the truth. There is always something hidden behind, dietro.

Dr. Kelly, are you familiar with the term, 'cabinet of curiosities'?" Nora wondered at the man's ability to pile on non sequiturs. "Wasn't it a kind of natural history collection?" "Precisely. It was the precursor to the natural history museum. Many

Eight months passed before they were actually charged with murder: That was how long it took to develop the "evidence." In the United States, suspects typically cannot be held more than 72 hours without being charged.

Zemurray donated lavishly to Central American causes, schools, and philanthropic ventures; he played a significant role in the founding of Israel; he endowed a female professorship at Harvard, which

The only constant in this town is its yearning for imbecility.

He carried the Lakota principle that he would render no judgments on anyone except through direct experience

The best way to not think of something is to possess it fully, and then cultivate indifference.