One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the "benevolent" end of the furious living and furious dying.

I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.