states and desires

"I want to be so rich I can use humans to play Jenga."

"I just brushed my teeth!"
"with what? a bean burrito?"

"you KNOW golem was a tweaker."

"sushi is basically a japanese burrito. this is why sushi is so close to my heart."

one of the smartest people I know:
"in high school, we did that experiment where someone drops a yardstick and you catch it to test reaction time. they said that 20 or 21 inches was borderline mentally retarded. I got 19."

and pieces of a much larger rant about a book::
"they make the statement, I shit you not, 'freud has mostly been debunked, but we can still see how he applies.'"
"that's like saying, 'unicorns don't exist, but if they did then they would most certainly support our theory.'"

"here's another quote: 'humans are innately aggressive.... society forces us to repress this instinct.'"
"well they aren't totally wrong on that point, but they are wrong in a fundamental way. everyone has the capacity for aggression. the purpose of society is to reduce the need for it or its effectiveness as a viable strategy."
"yeah, that's what I mean! 'not totally wrong, but fundamentally so.' I feel like they wrote half of this stuff as sophomores in college....I think my sophomore year was 'not totally wrong, but fundamentally so."

"something else that's interesting to look into: dweck's studies on how ideas about intelligence can make people act in incredibly stupid ways. she has a section of an article entitled 'making people stupid by telling them they're smart.'"
"she's got a pretty jacked-up face. I wonder if she looks that way because someone told her she was beautiful."