“The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.”

“It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.”

“It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.”

“If you spend too much time dreaming, you’ll stop actually doing. And when you actually do stuff, there’s a good chance things will work out. We make things happen by attacking, not by sitting around dreaming.”

“It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.”

“The more time I spend with you, the more my mind is cluttered. I'm not used to doing nice things for anyone but all I want to do is make you happy.”