The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.

No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.