All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.