Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

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

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

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

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.