If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.

Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.