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.

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.

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.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood.

Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

The President scores much better than Bill Clinton.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

The audience loves it when you pay attention to details.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.