It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.