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

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

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

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

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

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?

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