The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.