“Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness.”

“A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.”

“...our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event. Few of us live lives so emotionally charged that we can truly, accurately retrieve all of it. ...Often only our crisis events are preserved with strong emotions. For our own survival we can't forget them, and then we too easily forget the good stuff.”

“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.”

“Oppression can only survive through silence.”

“All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accidentenabling unpopular persons to survive.”