We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.

live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other -Lady Gaga via twitter

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.