You can't possibly spend a lifetime with anybody and know them.

The more someone talks, the more they reveal about themselves and the more they reveal about the way something has affected them.

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

People are so complex that you can't possibly know anybody in 90 minutes.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.