Paul Auster Quotes

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

I have a terrible memory.

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

I don't even know my own phone number.

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

I don’t remember.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

I can't remember names and things.

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

My memory's not too good.

I've got a short memory span.

I have a memory problem. My family and friends call me Lady Ghajini.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.

I have a really terrible memory.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'