Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire..

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game.

Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not bein….

In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory ….

Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended ….

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future..

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, po….

When it’s time, it’s time … and it’s time..

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past..

Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in ….

The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the b….

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested..

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living..

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it..

Love is . . .” An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled up in my che….

We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit….

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up..

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it..

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall..

There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the mo….