Tokoro

“Vladimir allegedly noting that “drinking is the joy of all Rus’. We cannot exist without that pleasure.” (Some stereotypes have a long pedigree, it seems.)”
― Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

“It turns out that our waking verbal mind converses with our sleeping one. Fortunately, this doesn’t produce Oedipal wish fulfillments.”
― Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

“History becomes a guidebook for geopolitics.”
― Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

“With our defenses down and our civilized propriety turned off while we slept, he thought, our demons came out and romped around, revealing our desires. Then came early neuroscience, which took out all the dark and naughty romance of psychoanalysis and replaced it with the cold no-nonsense attitude of the physical workings of the brain.”
― Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It