“I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.”
“But men can forget. If too much time goes by, they can forget what they have. How much they want what they have.”
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
“people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men--he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is the compost of the imagination.”
“There is one woman I’ve dated I just can’t seem to forget, no matter how much I drink or how many concussions I give myself.”