I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

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

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.