Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.