My friend said, that you'd have to go so fast, it would make you, and the sleigh, and the reindeer, all burn up!

Now, are we talking a peck on the cheek... or was it something that your friend might call...

No, I need to go first. Look... I needed you to help me get home, and then one thing led to another, and then suddenly I had a friend, and I was too scared to tell you the truth, but this is my phone, Manny, not yours.

The real reason I don't have a cell phone is because I don't have any family to contact, and, most of all, I don't have any friends.

But now if I meet a new person, say Briar, all her friends would immediately enter my adjacent possible, pushing its boundaries further.

♫ Dum ta da da dum dum ta da da dum ♫ Well, your musician friend will stop you and say, "You know, the theme music for your data revolution, that's an opera, that's Wagner.

The control of a laser is so precise that you can perform surgery inside of an eye, you can use it to store massive amounts of data, and you can use it for this beautiful experiment that my friend was struggling to explain.

So as my friend was trying to explain that experiment, it seemed like the more he said, the less I understood.

It would give out on me, and I would watch the guys, I'd go to this warehouse where a lot of the guys were skating, my friends, and I was like, "I've got to do something new, I want to do something new.

They take more risks than children or adults, and they are particularly prone to taking risks when they're with their friends. There's an important drive to become independent from one's parents and to impress one's friends in adolescence.

I got a phone call from a 30-something friend, a woman, she said, "So, my partner and I were in the middle of doing some things and I was like, 'I want you right now.' And he said, 'No, you're still dry, you're just being nice.' And I was so ready.

So a friend of mine who's a political scientist, he told me several months ago exactly what this month would be like.

My friend described it as a wake, but happy, because everyone I ever knew was there in line to see me, but I wasn't dead. I was just signing books.

Are they absorbing the story that a male hero's job is to defeat the villain with violence and then collect the reward, which is a woman who has no friends and doesn't speak?

Your last job, your dinner reservations from last year, your former friends, lie on a flat plain with today's friends, because the Internet also archives, and it warps the past.

He wrote: "I miss myself, my friends, times of reading novels or writing poems, birds and tea in the morning.

Many years ago, I had a patient, just a wonderful young man who was loved by the staff, and so it was something of a shock to us to realize that he had no friends.

Or that dark night when I was 16 when three little kids had come to me and they whispered in my ear that my friend was murdered in something called the honor killings.

So imagine your friend told a joke, and you're laughing because you like your friend, but not really because the joke's all that.

But that only appears when the stress is related to the memory task— so while time pressure might help you memorize a list, having a friend scare you will not.

(Laughter) (Applause) JF: You know, I was thinking this morning, I don't even know what I would do without my women friends.

I don't know about you. But anyway -- (Laughter) You know, they make me stronger, they make me smarter, they make me braver.

You're telling a friend an amazing story, and you just get to the best part when suddenly he interrupts, "The alien and I, " not "Me and the alien."

Inside it was every single letter he had ever received from visitors from abroad, and on some of them he had pasted little black-and-white worn snapshots of his new foreign friends.

I have a friend named Bo who made this painting of his wife and I dancing by the ocean, and he called it "The Light Years."

I disabled Facebook's algorithm, which is hard because Facebook keeps wanting to make you come under the algorithm's control, and saw that my friends were talking about it.

It started, as with many great ideas, or many ideas you can't get rid of, anyway, at a cocktail party.

When my friends on Twitter stopped accusing and started asking questions, I almost automatically mirrored them.

I have a loving, supportive family and incredibly loyal friends, yet I could not entertain the idea of speaking to anyone about my feeling of pain.

How can we help our friends be more successful, more educated and some day, better global citizens?

And so you'd still have a conversation about something controversial, but you'd be having it in the most empowering place on your timeline, which would be at home that night with a bunch of a friends over to talk about it.

Some people think that's a superpower, but my real superpowers are ricocheting off of glass walls -- (Laughter) and letting my friends walk around with kale in their teeth.

Because when it gets hard, when it gets tough, when your friends walk away from you, when your supporters forget you, when you don't win your first race -- if you don't know why, you can't try again.

And it's got the three main characteristics of addiction: tolerance, you need to see them more, and more, and more; withdrawals; and last: relapse.

I'll talk more about this, but the real epidemic isn't just heart disease or obesity or smoking, it's loneliness and depression.

When you hear your boys talking about grabbing ass or getting her drunk, will you actually stand up and do something so that one day we don't have to live in a world where a woman has to risk everything and come forward to say the words "me too?"

I actually reckon that fangirls have a second superpower, because they know how to do something that most of my adult friends have no idea how to do.

I had told them, or their friends had told them, that along with the list of the three things they wanted fixed, I needed their photo, their name and their date of birth.