To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

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.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

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

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.