Every evil starts with 15 volts.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

Enemies are so stimulating.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.