We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

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

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.