“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.”

“True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.”

“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”

“We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.”

“Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.”

“People think I’m all gloom and doom all the time. I’m not. I also have bad days where I’m pessimistic.”