Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.

It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions

We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.