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I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.

...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

The road to success isn’t necessarily the road to happiness.

Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Dwight Howard is a Hall of Fame player.

Nothing is more heroic than loving without shame.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

I would be much less stressed out without social media. I am constantly afraid of getting hacked. It's like being afraid of stepping on glass.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.