The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

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

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.