You're going to face a choice in November. This is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess in the first place and the policies that….

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once aga….

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vivi….

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures o….

the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, ….

If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would be only you and your memories, the choices you've ma….

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in m….

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch..

But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been..

If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the w….

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory..

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks..

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories.

Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the….

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory..

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction wit….

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction..

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed..

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements..

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, yo….

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so muc….