To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?