All self-help books boil down to this: You can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times but if you could fold it 103 times

Human beings have always used the symbolic to navigate the real; until recently we did so by imagining that the symbolic is rea… whereas scientists imagine that

The crucial ingredient for random mutation to drive evolution is a surplus of time But nothing

Much like nuclear weapons the whole point of having vacation days is never to use them

You can’t put a square peg in a round hole but you can put a JPEG in a memory hole

The Cookie Monster is just living up to the name Kermit gave him

All art’s politi– cal but some art is more re– ligious than others

Hey mister, that Deep Blue is some deep shit I know, that’s why we’re

Behaviorists insist that the mind is a black box which makes it an utter mystery

Writing history is hard especially when it’s about the past

The struggle to become an individual in no way implies the need to be unique

Antisemitism is suddenly easy to f… It’s a mile wide and just scratch the surface an inch deep– You’ll find it there

You’re supposed to love everybody but everybody knows that’s putting all of your eggs in one ba… so everybody eggs each other on in making a western omelet

I was happy alone Because being together Meant being lonely Until you showed me That being together

I have just complet– ed my memoirs: One Hundred Years of Solid Food