random book quote of the day

"Randomness - events occurring unpredictably without apparent cause - has been seized on to rescue the nervous system (or rather our view of it) from being a machine without volition or free will."

- Richard L. Gregory, Eye and Brain

random book quote

"Distorted body images are common and demonstrate that there is a difference between the body image and the body itself. Anorexics experience their bodies as fat when they are on the edge of starvation; people with distorted body images, a condition called "body dysmorphic disorder," can experience a part of their body that is perfectly within the norm as defective."

- N. Doidge: The Brain that Changes Itself

random book quote

Opened first book I saw randomly.

'"No center. It doesn't exist. All of us - look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom of fear. But there's nothing else." I felt I was getting the bad news I'd been trying to avoid for so long.'

- Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a Coma