Bodily Reaction Quotes

I make the same noise after I eat too much as I do after I work out.

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

It's like the Fouth of July in my underpants.

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah."

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.