“Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations over the course of four days, researchers from Washington University and the University...”

“For my mothers entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a ce...”

“Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.”

“There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of te...”

“Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally and sometimes maddeningly who we are.”

“In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.”

“What magic was this, brewed from equal parts of age-old memories and total oblivion. One could have believed that the last war these people had fought had left only happy memories, had carried in i...”

“It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.”

“Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”

“Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.”

“Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can ...”

“Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.'Maybe it believes you can handle i...”