The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

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.

Well, the first month of 2014 is soon to complete welcome to tomorrow dream warrior.

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

I like going to the gym every day.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

We have started calling him grandfather.