To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the word….

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how ….

It's kind of hard to enjoy the film when you are watching yourself the whole time. But you do get on with it and try and appreciate everything else a….

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning ….

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed wo….

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future..

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present..

Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without ego….

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for ….

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories..

I am happy when I am on stage. I like that wave of blue. I like the eardrum splitting sounds of loud screams. I like to be able to breathe along with….

I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends….

They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland S….

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than….

Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret..

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a b….

You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I….

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your l….

I write in a rush of memory..

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, toget….

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look..