Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made.

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.