Joren

“Geen mens kon een ander overtuigen van zijn liefde; men kon er alleen maar aan geloven, van elkaar.”
― Simon Vestdijk, De dokter en het lichte meisje

“On Fifth Avenue I went into the Trump Tower, a new skyscraper. A guy named Donald Trump, a developer, is slowly taking over New York, building skyscrapers all over town with his name on them, so I went in and had a look around. The building had the most tasteless lobby I had ever seen --- all brass and chrome and blotchy red and white marble that looked like the sort of thing that if you saw it on the sidewalk you would walk around it. Here it was everywhere --- on the floors, up the walls , on the ceiling. It was like being inside somebody's stomach after he'd eaten pizza.”
― Bill Bryson

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Our goal over the next few chapters is to address the origin of complex structures—including, but not limited to, living creatures—in the context of the big picture. The universe is a set of quantum fields obeying equations that don’t even distinguish between past and future, much less embody any long-term goals. How in the world did something as organized as a human being ever come to be?”
― Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself