This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!

Am I an illusion?

It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.