Kids are anarchy writ large.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.

If you can't handle the baggage, you'll have to get out of the baggage room.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

I had a will to win that come from being raised poor.

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.