*We are oxygen

Well I want to keep track of some of my favorite lines from the book I'm reading, which I should have been doing all along, but since I just came up with the idea, I'll start now.

*Even thinking, it turns out, affects the way genes work. How fast a man's beard grows, for instance, is partly a function of how much he thinks about sex (b/c thinking about sex produces a testosterone surge).

*It cannot be said too often: all life is one.

*From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

*I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went--and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light...

"Darkness" by Byron
(this was due to Mount Tambora erupting in the Dutch East Indies, which blocked out the sun, and caused weather changes across the planet)