In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

It was while bent over, trying to breathe through the pain of bruised ribs, with the sensation of spit running down his cheek that Jason decided he was going to die.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.