memory Quotes

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on the basement workbench was not just a personal passion - a lot of young people were doing the same. The magazine expired in 1999 for lack of interest.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.