I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home

Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ...

I have come to understand something about novels, " Tessa said."And what is that?""They are not true.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.