In the end, living is defined by dying.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

I write with teenagers in mind.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.