Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

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.

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.

I had to do that. At least once.

Most of the things that go wrongin life don’t have a lasting impact.Remind yourself that if it won’tmatter in ten years’ time, it doesn’t matter today.

I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.

I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

Focus on what you have.