I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.