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

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

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

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.

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.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.