What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel.

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's because we're dropping our empathy that we're nicer to each other, just that the drop doesn't seem to be causing any harm.

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

I think Americans are always going to care more about Americans than about Mexicans.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.