A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.

I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidden beneath her every breath. I wanted to unravel her with my hands.

Oh thee! Lets ignite the fire of love

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

You have to be patient. I'm not!

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

Jennifer Garner and I are very close.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.