"A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth."

“If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.”

“I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.”

“The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something”

“When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.”

Source : Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.197, Canongate Books

“A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.”

“The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.”

“Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.”

“I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.”