As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

You like a person not because of what they have but for what they truly are.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people.

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

You have to like the characters you play.