What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

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