I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

We call them feelings because we feel them.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

Who can go beyond the mind? The one who has conquered the mind.

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.

I love to work out and do cardio and have a healthy, active lifestyle, but I also am not going to, like, freak out over food.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

Not here not there not anywhere!

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.