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

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.

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.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

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.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.