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.

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.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

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

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.

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

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