Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.