“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. ”

“Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.”

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”

“This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras.”

“I'd rather do something than read about it.""That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*.”