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Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.
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In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
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Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
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The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them.
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
