David Rakoff Quotes

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

I have a great memory.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

You don't just forget things overnight.

When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

I'm not as sharp as I used to be.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.