Before there were books, we read each other.

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.

Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.

You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.