Otis Chandler

“Third, I went from craving classical wisdom to consuming memes and tweets and tech news—which led to my imitating ideas without knowing it. I knew more about what blogger Gary Vaynerchuk had to say about happiness than Aristotle.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

“Nasal breathing alone can boost nitric oxide sixfold, which is one of the reasons we can absorb about 18 percent more oxygen than by just breathing through the mouth. Mouth taping, Burhenne said, helped a five-year-old patient of his overcome ADHD, a condition directly attributed to breathing difficulties during sleep.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

“Recommending a book to someone is the second best thing to buying it for them, which is the second best thing to reading it for them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My personal belief is that we turn to postapocalyptic fiction not because we’re drawn to disaster, per se, but because we’re drawn to what we imagine might come next. We long secretly for a world with less technology in it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility