A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these events. And the left hemisphere works this way even in normal, intact brains. Hidden programs drive actions, and the left hemisphere makes justifications. This idea of retrospective storytelling suggests that we come to know our own attitudes and emotions, at least partially, by inferring them from observations of our own behavior.