Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

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.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.

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.

Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.