Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.

A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it began, it was difficult to interrupt or stop

Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.

I don't think there's a lonelier feeling than being with someone who has stopped caring.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.