Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.

We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.

Never think of hurting anyone else, if you do, you are already hurting yourself.

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.