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.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

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

No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.