“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”
– Mark Twain

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

“Life itself is only a vision; a dream. Nothing exists, save empty space and you. And you are but a thought.”
– Mark Twain from The Mysterious Stranger

I’m your dopamine angel and I’m writing to help you understand how dopamine works.

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
— Samuel Johnson

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” – Voltaire

“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired in the grown-up world. When they are the futile struggle for love and concern and protection, they may become the warped and ruthless machinations of adults who seek in the advantages of power what they could never win as children.” – Leontine Young

To: Steven Poole

Subject: “Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks.” (http://ow.ly/dST8L)