A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.

There is never such a thing as learning too much. We can always delve deeper, and in fact we should!

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.