"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."

"There is always something rather absurd about the past"

"But, despite all that, I have a lot more good memories than bad of being here and I would love to come back next year."

"I don't trust my memory,"

"The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do."

"Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives."

"If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform."

"The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other."

"The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound."

"I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories."

"I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man."

"Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory."

"Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand."

"And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware."

"On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program."

"I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments."

"Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past."

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

"Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about."

"There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you."

"The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped!"

"How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering."

"How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering."

"Remembering is only a new form of suffering."