A friend of mine found this neat quote from the French postmodernist philosopher Michel Foucault. I want to post it on here because it exemplifies exactly how my mind works and why I often converse with people in a very free-flowing, almost "schizophrenic" way.

"I write precisely because I don’t know yet what to think about a subject that attracts my interest. In so doing, the book transforms me, changes what I think. As a consequence, each new work profoundly changes the terms of thinking which I had reached with the previous work. In this sense, I consider myself more of an experimenter than a theorist; I don’t develop deductive systems to apply uniformly in different fields of research. When I write, I do it above all to challenge myself and not to think the same thing as before. And no matter how boring and erudite my resulting books have been, this lesson has always allowed me to conceive them as direct experiences to tear me from myself, to prevent me from always being the same."

—Colloqui con Foucault (1978). Interview with Duccio Trombadori (Italian). Trans. R. James Goldstein and James Cascaito as Remarks on Marx (NY: Semiotext(e), 1991).