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.

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

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

The drives you take for granted ("I'm a hetero/homosexual," "I'm attracted to children/adults," "I'm aggressive/not aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.