Vision is more than looking.

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.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

keep the relationship with your God private, special & unique... then ignore all the filters other Christians use to look at you...

The Prime Minister gazed hopelessly at the pair of them for a moment, then the words he had fought to suppress all evening burst from him at

The void can only be filled with love.

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Believe me, having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.