No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.