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

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 of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

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