All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

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.

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

The clearer your vision becomes, the easier it is to guard what God calls you to do.

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

The original reality show.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.