We call them feelings because we feel them.

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.

...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.