You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

Reimagine a way communities can be rebuilt.

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.

The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

By learning to create technology girls learn to speak up...

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.