Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.