The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

Writing is also an art.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

Don't live your life to please other people.

Had the Luhyas united, my plans would have been impossible to fulfil .