All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the f….

When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its i….

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect..

When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a viol….

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings..

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was….

Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a h….

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world..

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to….

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills we….

I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's alw….

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible..

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

I would like to work with whoever would like to have me..

The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. ….

Things that are unknown attract us..

To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a con….

I let the scripts basically be my Bible..

I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over ….