David Mazzucchelli Quotes

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

And never forget, there is memory.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

What business does memory have with time?

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Memory, the warder of the brain.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.