“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”

“So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”

“He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.”

“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”

“Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.”

“We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)”

“There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”