Noah Baker

“Everyone has a different understanding of happiness. If you have regret in your heart, and you can’t forget it, then you’ll never be happy.”
― Shen Fuyu, The Artisans: A Vanishing Chinese Village

“Zhang Diankun spent more than half a month in bed. He says every time he thinks of you, his legs start to tremble.” Mei snorted with laughter and said, “That dogfucker.”
― Shen Fuyu, The Artisans: A Vanishing Chinese Village

“It meant (most clearly formulated by Kant) that no man must be the means for the ends of another man.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Such warnings are not to be taken lightly, and it behooves every chess parent, chess organizer, and chess instructor to be mindful of the game’s destructive power—to work on tapping into chess’s positive Benjamin Franklin forces while avoiding its corrosive Bobby Fischer forces.”
― David Shenk, The Immortal Game: A History of Chess