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.

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

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

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

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

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

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.

You may regard yourself as a accident from the cosmos, but I prefer to think of you as a miracle.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be “communicated with.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.