I was on my own. What could I have done? Where could someone in my situation have gone? There seemed but two options: science or entertainment. I could have gone crawling back to science, if it was certain slavery with the benefits of security and relative comfort I had wanted, and of course I did not want that. So instead I went into show business. And I liked it.

—from, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

I am almost done reading this book, so the people around me can breathe easy that they won’t have to endure my constantly plugging it in every conversation for much longer.