Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

I find it difficult to trust my eyes. Things are never what they seem.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.