“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”– H. G. Wells Related Quotes “It is terrible to be an unprotected being.”— Colm Tóibín “It’s a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We’ve got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we’ve explored some of the secondary characters’ personal lives a bit more.”– Matt Groening “She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day’s wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.”— Thomas Hardy