“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.”

“There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we do to survive. It's the remembering part that's hard. Some people remember and some never have to. The blessed and the cursed.”

“In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.”

“We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.”

“We remember the pains of our pasts, so we don't make the same mistakes in our futures.”

“We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.”