8 Quotes by D. T. Max

Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.

Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you’d be pretty grossed out too, I bet – same as if you narrated yours. Aren’t we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn’t that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

I didn’t go through anyone’s garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

As a writer I’m not an explainer, really. I’m a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.