It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.