So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

We call them feelings because we feel them.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

Hillary has the brains of someone who was born yesterday and the body of someone who died last week.

She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.

It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

I don't care what's probable. Through blood, sweat, and tears, I am unstoppable.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.