From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.
- Moby
The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.