Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

Patience and empathy are anger's mortal enemies.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.