Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

There's that effect that is very physical, very down there at the synaptic level, which really means microscopic cellular level, but also molecular level, because all of those structures are operating on an electrochemical basis and so the changes there are very important.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.