"Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live. - Jonah Lehrer

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic.

People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.