Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

sometimes it's hard to knowwhat todo.

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles, " noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Certainty becomes you.