We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.