Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.

The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.