Omar Magariños

“After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again. Nature is forever playing solitaire with herself.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

“JOHNSON. 'Supposing we could have pleasure always, an intellectual man would not compound for it. The greatest part of men would compound, because the greatest part of men are gross.”
― James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson

“I have a deep aversion to too much introspection, to navel-gazing. I’d rather die than go to an analyst, because it’s my view that something fundamentally wrong happens here. If you harshly light every last corner of a house, the house will become uninhabitable . . . I am convinced that it’s psychoanalysis – along with quite a few other mistakes – that has made the twentieth century so terrible. As far as I’m concerned, the twentieth century, in its entirety, was a mistake.”
― Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

“Perhaps because of its special place in our sense of self and free will, the brain did not receive the scrutiny of microbiologists again until the final years of the twentieth century. At this point, many microbes were soon linked to mental illness, but it is the Toxoplasma parasite that has proved to be the most compelling suspect for many conditions. Occasionally, when people are first infected with the parasite they develop psychiatric symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, that lead to an initial misdiagnosis of schizophrenia. In fact, amongst those with schizophrenia, the presence of Toxoplasma is three times more common than in the general population – a far more telling association than any genetic connections so far revealed. Intriguingly, schizophrenics are not the only mental health patients in whom Toxoplasma infection is rife. It has also been found to be involved in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Tourette’s syndrome, all of which have become increasingly common over the past several decades.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness