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

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

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.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

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

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