Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.

The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.