mind Quotes

Love is a brainworm.

Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.