...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present..

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dre….

A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with plenty….

I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-este….

Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and des….

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the….

You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely….

Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting….

The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory ….

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible..

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories..

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either..

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality..

A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and l….

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controllin….

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears..

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it..

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory..

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, f….

For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah..

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictabi….