Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy** some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

We become what we deeply desire and think about most of the time

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.