Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.

You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

You are the song of my mind, melody of my soul, dance of my spirit, and the indescribable ecstasy of my life.

He who laughs and loves is always rich

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.