Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
I am not a ventriloquist.
Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.