The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.