"Since it is probable that any book flying a bullet in its title is going to produce a corpse sooner or later - here it is."

"A hypnotist who has never read James Braid is a bit like a psychoanalyst who’s never read anything by Sigmund Freud. Anyone with an interest in modern cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy, such as our o…"

"It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born."

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

"There's something to the idea of the autonomous character. Big chunks of our wetware are devoted to simulating other people, trying to figure out if we are likely to fight or fondle them. It's unsurpr…"