Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

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.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

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