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

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

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.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

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.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.