We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.

You Can Not Me Honest To Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.

Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.

There's no end to the stoppage of this drama

Everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of America's interests and our values.

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

Don't Worry, Be Hapi.

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.