Every so often, the memory atoms bond with the imagination atoms and something interesting -- a fictive precipitate -- will settle out of the solution.

At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath

If we can improve memory for brain-damaged children even a little bit, we will have contributed significantly to their future.

Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part of your heart. Myth is the true history. Don't let them tell you that there are no monsters. Don't let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd. Be strong, my darling ones, and believe!

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.