You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.

Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.

Every decision you make in life will stem from one of two options: love or fear. Choose love.

An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.