Quotes About Memory

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that affects many of our loved ones.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

My mother died on my birthday.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.

Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily Show' right now - you should submit a tape.' I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.

I've been in a lot of shows, I will say that. Every once in a while, I'll look at a tape of something I've done, and I won't even remember having done it.

When an old tape machine makes pitch wobble, some people would say that compromises fidelity and would try to get rid of it. But to me that wobble adds richness, it instantly brings back the feelings you associate with old recordings.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the 'Rambo III' score. I was not allowed to see 'Rambo,' but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie.

In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don't know if that means I'm mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that conversation, different images of my parents appear to me.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.