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.

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

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

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

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

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

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.