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.

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 call them feelings because we feel them.

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.

The four abiding abodes, The ideal attitude for a follower of the Buddhist teaching to maintain towards other living beings.

Measure yourself by your best moments not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?

Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.