Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.

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.

Lord give us success today.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.