The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

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.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

Lack of money is no poverty.

Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

Want what you have and you will always get what you want.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy.

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.