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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.

As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts.

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.