“I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.”

“When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip.”

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”

“Here's the truth: people, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.”

“The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.”

“What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.”