Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Suspicion is the greatest enemy of love whether it is true or not.

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.