I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle..

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home..

He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cre….

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be co….

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction..

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people wil….

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences..

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory..

...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me….

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can..

My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of ….

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Some….

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our w….

They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last.….

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very d….

I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future i….

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry..

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense..

Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more read….

If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis….

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong..