As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

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.

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.

Open your heart to the wonder of life simply by opening your heart.

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Digestion is one of the most delicately balanced of all human and perhaps angelic functions.

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.