“…it is time to rethink our relationship with our personal technologies. We need to reframe our goal from that of maximizing human productivity with our devices, to instead using them in maintaining a healthy psychological balance, while still achieving our aims.”
Source: Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
“To be selfless, you must first have a Self that you can give up. There is a world of difference between giving up yourself and giving up on your Self.”
Source: The Song of the Void: A Self-Fish Story
“There are times when a broken tool is better than a sound one, or a twisted personality more useful than a whole one. For instance, a whole beer bottle isn't half the weapon that half a beer bottle is...”
Source: In Case of Fire
“The problem, though, was that Thomas had never before been taught by the teacher named failure. As the broken Thomas spent hours by the mural and hours more lying in bed that night trying to fuse his shattered psyche with misguided hope and dubious possibility, he had no understanding of how to do so. In other words, he had all the raw materials but lacked the proper tools. As is often the case in such situations, his new identity was chaotic and distorted, a little more Picasso than da Vinci, or some may argue, his transformation left him a little more Mr. Hyde than Dr. Jekyll.”
Source: The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America
“Should you listen to a highly trained scuba diver’s advice before plunging into the depths of the ocean? Yes. Should you believe that person when the diver talks about seeing a mermaid making love to a dolphin? No.”
Source: You Are Not So Smart
“Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means you will do something new, meet someone new, and make a difference.”
Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--and How to Make the Most of Them Now in Vietnamese
“Religion is many things, but the relational element is at its core. Nonrelational religion, if it is religion at all, is hollow.”
Source: Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
“Secrets enter systems like a drug, causing aberrations in the body and clouds in the mind.”
Source: AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
“Even when I get out of my own way, I'm still not getting anywhere. I've spent my life waiting for marshmallows and they didn't give me any.”
“A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response.”