All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.