“The real intolerance for my immune system is fake people.”

“My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless… I'm not going to have a happy ending.”

“I see myself as sort-of the left’s ‘immune system’; no more than that.”

“"Is this guy for real?"
"He thinks he's faking it, but he's not."”

“People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.”

“life is too short for fake butter or fake people.”

“And I want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. It's fake, phony, fake. A few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are, they are the enemy of the people.”

“Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.”

“I'm perhaps best known for three different kinds of work, which seem disparate to many people but to me run as a unified theme. These are my contributions in conceiving the notion of autopoiesis — self-production — for cellular organization, the enactive view of the nervous system and cognition, and a revising of current ideas about the immune system.”

“People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?”