The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.