"So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements."

“For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.”

“The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”

Source : Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book

“All genuine learning is active, not passive.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler (1998). “Paideia Proposal”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

“We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.”

“I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.”

Source : Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

“Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.”

Source : "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

“Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.”

“People can not be separated from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated unit. Human consciousness is increasing the order of the rest of the world and has an incredible power to heal ourselves and the world: in a certain sense we make the world as such, as we wish.”