We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.

Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature.

We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Most people are on the world, not in it.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.