... reflect ...

Charles Bukowski -- The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing (amazon) 

John Cage -- Silence: Lectures and Writings (amazon)

James Gleick -- Chaos: Making a New Science (amazon)

Darian Leader -- Hands: What We Do with Them . and Why (amazon)

Norman Mailer -- The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing (amazon)

Henry Miller -- The Books in My Life (amazon) 

Judea Pearl -- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (amazon)

Rebecca Solnit -- Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir (amazon)

Keith E. Stanovich -- The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin (amazon)

Ian Stewart -- Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (amazon)

Barbara Tversky -- Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought (amazon)

Walt Whitman -- Song of Myself (amazon)