The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.