It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.