My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

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.

…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.

So are you saying I’m your Superman?”--- Josh Copeland

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.