“Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.”
“The problem with aging was not that death was near, for death was always near. The problem with aging was that a woman began to carry too many memories within her.”
“Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance — although not nearly as often as many developers believe — but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.”
“Odd snatches of memory, more like dreams.”
“What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...”
“I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.”