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

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

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

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

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.