People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"