on people

"I don't think people's inner personalities change, only the way that they interact with other people. They're kind of like proteins - they're synthesized in a certain environment with a certain pH and other factors, so that the tertiary structure is a specific 3-dimensional shape, but the amino acid sequence is the same. If the protein is transferred to some other environment with a different pH, the tertiary structure changes, but the amino acid sequence doesn't."

oh, mona. :)