Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

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.

Have you listened to your heart?

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

I don't aim to offend.

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.