From "What Do You Care What Other People Think": I was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, I had a friend named Bernie Walker. We both had “labs” at home, and we

From "What Do You Care What Other People Think": I was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, I had a friend named Bernie Walker. We both had “labs” at home, and we would do various “experiments.” One time, we were discussing something — we must have been eleven or twelve at the time — and I said, “But thinking is nothing but talking to yourself inside. “Oh yeah?” Bernie said. “Do you know the crazy shape of the crankshaft in a car?” “Yeah, what of it?” “Good. Now, tell me: how did you describe it when you were talking to yourself?” So I learned from Bernie that thoughts can be visual as well as verbal.