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

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.

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

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.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

I played like a child!

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.