Don Winslow Quotes

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

My memory's pretty much gone.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Every witness withholds information from the Congress.

People talk from memory and memory often plays false.

I don’t remember.

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

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

I had amnesia once or twice.

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

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling appeared before Congress. Do you think they even bothered swearing him in? Now he is denying he lied to Congress last week. He's saying it was just the liquor talking.

If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how people do it.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.