“Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.”
“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
“If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.”
“Quiet Prayer:As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age & have no time for poetry. Still, I offer a quiet prayer of thanks for the sunlight each time I see your face.”
“Words are the only things in this universe, which never become old and if these become old then make history .Impact and affect of the words are greatest and most powerful than anything else .One and only you are the responsible of the give and take of the words .”
“I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, its memories, its past, present and future, all of which we seal into a single destiny each time we face ourselves and utter that tiny, unalterable word: 'I.”