A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.