The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

People will come and go in your life and only few of them will become Immortal in your heart

Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.