I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.