Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of….

We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we ha….

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness..

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that th….

My dad was a huge basketball influence in my life on and off the court. Playing for him and having him around, having him push me harder than maybe a….

Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original component….

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time..

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately ….

I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'….

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history..

Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind..

I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos Def when he first "got" hip-hop and he we….

The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think might be important or pivotal, a lot of t….

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories..

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out fro….

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present..

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal..

Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when….

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work..

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, ….

Bill Clinton's favorite memory is Hillary leaning down and putting contact paper in the drawers, in the chest of drawers in Chelsea's dorm room at St….