One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Magic isn't done

Imperfection keeps me trying, and I won't stop even if I do achieve it.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

I don't think good films have messages.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.