Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the 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.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough.

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.