Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

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Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan