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.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

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

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.

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.