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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'