Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade …”

“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripen…”

“He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people ar…”

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”