One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.