"I am for people. I can't help it."

“A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything else involves some "perturbation." This is a mental model, a conceptual frame, a tacit belief, a presupposition - whatever you want to call it.”

“You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.”

Source : "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

“Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.”

“Falling is one of the ways of moving.”

“and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious”

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”

Source : j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

“Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.”

Source : James Gates Percival, James Gordon Brooks, James Lawson, Henry Denison, George Robertson (jr. of Savannah, Ga) (1828). “The Columbian lyre: or, Specimens of transatlantic poetry”, p.228

“Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.”