“How many things do I have to invent in my head to survive this?”
“Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.”
“How many 'inventions' are really memories, of the things we once knew?”
“How come I have too many things to do all the time...??”
“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”