My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from…

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

— Seneca the Younger

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and…

— Susan Sontag

On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than,…

— Susan Sontag

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets…

— Jean Baudrillard

She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull,…

— Thomas Pynchon

How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What…

— Jeaniene Frost

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something…

— David Eagleman

I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex perverts.' The…

— Bertrand Russell

Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series…

— Douglas Bloch

When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away…

— David Eagleman

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had…

— Will Self

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one…

— Francis Crick

Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push…

— Stone Gossard