The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination.

I decided to write the book I wanted to read

Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

Life is hard, but it's even harder when you don't wanna face it.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

bite me. oh wait, you can't from way out there." - eve

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.