An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.