Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

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.

Stop nourishing other people’s ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.

The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

Creativity is basically subversive. . . .

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

small talk comes from small bones

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.